In-Between Strangeness and Sensibility: School as Encounter

• In Event: AERA Research in Progress Roundtable Session One
  In Invited Roundtable: Research-in-Progress RT008 (Wednesday)

Abstract

This paper revolves around a research project about the possibility of approaching the curriculum as an aesthetic creation that emerges between thought and perception, assuming it as a processual movement (Whitehead, 1979, 2009) — an emergence that occurs in/as encounter. In doing so, it refutes the preconceived humanistic idea of the curriculum as a written document separate from the school, as if they were individual entities that relate to one another as containers. A way of taking seriously the idea that curriculum, and consequently "school, as a name, only exists because it integrates the whole lived experience with the world and with ourselves and, therefore, cannot be defined a priori or by a specific function" (Santos & Macedo, 2022, p. 3).

Author

• Sulamita Inácio Freire, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro