Tangles of Difference: Transnational and Transgenerational Curriculum Relationalities

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Curriculum conceptions, constructions and encounters never stand still or alone. World-wide curriculum endeavors include diverse, often conflicting and always morphing assumptions, theorizings, expectations, desires, understandings. These are the tangles of curriculum relationalities – tangles of difference.
Trans-national and -generational symposium participants situate their interrogations with/in these never-immobile tangles as means of “working difference,” thus embodying a constant refusing of static categories of sameness and permanent otherness.
Our overarching Symposium goal is to bring our varied inquiries into relation with one another and with audience members. These very tangles of difference and relationalities could impel situated iterations of “working difference” as one means of responding to challenges of AERA’s 2024 Call to create “spaces of emancipation, justice, and dignity” for all.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 3: Theories, Methodologies, and Philosophies of Curriculum Studies

Chair

• Janet L. Miller, Teachers College, Columbia University

Papers

• #Tradwives, Waldorf Schools, and Sad Beige Children: Progressive Schooling and the White Mom Imaginary - Maureen Negrelli Coomer, Colorado College; Elena H. Silverman, Indiana University - Indianapolis; Francesca Cicchilli, IFSA-Butler

• A Critical Discourse Analysis of Financial Aid Staff Perceptions - Saralyn McKinnon-Crowley, Baylor University

• Reconfiguring Race Through the Lens of Working Differences During a Climate Change Lesson - Sophia Jeong, The Ohio State University; Elena H. Silverman, Indiana University - Indianapolis

• Feminist, Posthumanist Autobiography and Intra-Sectional Identities: A Dystemporal Re-Membering - Mary J. Newbery, Quinnipiac University

• Curriculum Tangles: Theorizing With Alterity - Elizabeth Macedo, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro; Janet L. Miller, Teachers College, Columbia University