Curriculum Histories in Practice: Revisioning Time, Space, and Place (Table 20)

• In Event: Friday Roundtable Session 11:25 am

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

A critical issue confronting curriculum inquiry is the increasingly ahistorical nature of the field. This symposium takes up this ahistorical problematic by utilizing a variety of analytical and theoretical frameworks to pursue a rearticulation of historical curricular inquiry which disrupts and displaces dominant notions of curriculum history that have become habituated in modernist assumptions of linearity, progress, and change. The curriculum histories presented in this panel, represented in three contemporary book projects, disrupt historical approaches that have been focused on transforming curriculum by constructing unifying narratives. Alternatively, drawing on histories as indeterminate and spatial practices, histories are reconfigured as ethical, ontological relations that are always circulating, reverberating, and embodied in everyday practices.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 2: Exploring Past, Present, and Future Curricular Questions

Chair

• Petra Munro Hendry, Louisiana State University

Papers

• The Practice of Communities: Curriculum Histories Always in the Making - Petra Munro Hendry, Louisiana State University; Molly Quinn, Louisiana State University; Roland W. Mitchell, Louisiana State University; Jacqueline Bach, Louisiana State University

• The Journal as Entanglement: Intersectional Inquiry on 20 Years of Curriculum Theorizing - Robert J. Helfenbein, Mercer University

• Curriculum History Is Queer History: Janet L. Miller’s Revolutionary Currere - David L. Carlson, Arizona State University

• Transpacific Curriculum History: Historicizing Global Whiteness as Unintended Reverberations of Education Reforms in South Korea - Sun Young Lee, Wichita State University