Speculative Methodologies and Anti-Racist Curricular Practice: Building Curricular Futures Beyond Anti-Blackness

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In pursuit of anti-racist educational futurities, scholars are developing innovative modes of inquiry organized around novel ontological and axiological premises found in a variety of literatures including Afrofuturist theory, Black studies literature on fugitivity and refusal , scholarship on speculative fiction, posthumanist philosophies, contemporary philosophy of science, and Indigenous studies literature. This symposium presents four examples of such scholarship that use speculative methods and speculative fiction in the study of curriculum as a means of refusing the inevitability of anti-Blackness as a condition of learning. The purpose of the session is to explore how speculative practices of inquiry can serve anti-racist curriculum scholarship.

Sub Unit

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

Chair

• Ezekiel J. Dixon-Roman, Teachers College, Columbia University

Papers

• Beyond the Sacred Timeline: A Curricular Pluriverse Framework for Understanding Black Educational Temporalities - Stephanie R. Toliver, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• (Re)Storying Encounters With Anti-Blackness In Early Childhood Education: Thinking With Refusal - Fikile Nxumalo, University of Toronto - OISE; Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Western University

• We Need Black Girl Environmental Futures - Maya Revell, University of Oregon

• Cultivating AntiRacist Curricular Ecologies: Imagining Inclusive Educational Futurities as an Endlessly Evolving Endeavor - Jerry L. Rosiek, University of Oregon

Session Organizer

• Jerry L. Rosiek, University of Oregon

Discussant

• Ezekiel J. Dixon-Roman, Teachers College, Columbia University