Toward the Conceptualization of Discurrere

• In Event: Dissecting (De)Humanizing Educational Experiences

Abstract

In this conceptual paper I aim to conceptualize discurrere as an alternative theoretical method to currere. This semantic resignification will enable the reading, interpretation, and critique of dominant discourses, understood here as curriculum or etymologically as discurrere. Drawing from decolonial theory, discurrere extends the analysis and interpretation of curriculum to the broader colonial discourses creating the conditions under which dominant educational experiences unfold.

Author

• Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, Texas Tech University