A Wrinkle in Time: Writing Histories of the Future #healingcurriculum

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Drawing the L’ Engle’s text, we begin with the idea that the sense of deja vu or flashback, involving setbacks and blowbacks to education and education research, within the current sociopolitical climate is but a wrinkle in time. This “wrinkle” is an uncertain moment of fuzziness between truthfulness, falsity, pasts and emerging futures. Also circulating in the fabric of this space-time “wrinkle” are movements to re-write standards guiding the teaching of history and language arts, and re-name national monuments, parks, schools. This session focuses on the ways in which erasures and revisions to historical narratives are shaping the future of education across publics, curriculum standards, and materials.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies

Chair

• Julie Gorlewski, Virginia Commonwealth University

Presenters

• Carl A. Grant, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Keffrelyn D. Brown, The University of Texas at Austin

• Anthony L. Brown, The University of Texas - Austin

• Kathleen A. Hinchman, Syracuse University

• Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon, Arizona State University

Discussant

• Bernadette Baker, University of Wisconsin-Madison