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Resisting Curriculum as ‘Normalizing Text:’ A 20-Year Retrospective on Disability-Centered Epistemologies in Curriculum Theory

Fri, April 10, 9:45 to 11:15am PDT (9:45 to 11:15am PDT), Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 511AB

Session Type: Symposium

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Twenty years ago, Erevelles (2006) wrote Understanding curriculum as normalizing text: disability studies meet curriculum theory to demonstrate how school curriculum enforces dominant social norms while simultaneously normalizing oppressive schooling contexts. This session will aim to resist the hegemony of curriculum as normalizing text by: (1) identifying how normalcy continues to be constructed and maintained through curriculum; (2) theorizing how disability-centered curriculum and pedagogies can offer new possibilities for challenging dominant notions of normalcy, and (3) engage in a praxis of hope by imagining disabled futures that encompass more just and liberatory curriculum methods and research. The four papers featured in this session each reflect disability-centered epistemologies that engage with disability and expand what we know about teaching and learning.

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