“The Centre Cannot Hold”: Decolonizing the Advanced Placement Curriculum for a Reimagined Future

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Abstract

The College Board’s Advanced Placement program is enduringly problematic and continuously contested. Curriculum is one element of the program that needs to be reimagined in order to make it equitable. This reimagining can potentially be achieved through the application of postcolonial frameworks and ideas conceptualized by theorists like Franz Fanon and Homi Bhabha, such as the “third space” and “hybridity.” This research examines ways in which secondary Advanced Placement teachers can decolonize the College Board Advanced Placement curriculum resulting in a curriculum that decenters whiteness and where teachers and students share the responsibility for the co-construction of curriculum.

Authors

• Lakisha Odlum, Queens College - CUNY

• Sarah Richard