Curriculum, Epistemicide, and Global Movement Building

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Questions of knowledge, power and difference are central to the work we do as curriculum scholars. For centuries, Western Eurocentric epistemologies have colonized and dominated curricular discussions about what and whose knowledge is considered legitimate, trustworthy, and a viable stand-in for universal claims to truth, justice, and the common good. In the wake of such domination, Indigenous, Latin American, and African knowledges have been minimized, refused, denied, and even disappeared. In this session, several scholars from different places in the Americas take up these issues of curriculum, epistemicide, and the possibilities of movement building toward epistemological justice.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies

Discussant

• Denise M. Taliaferro Baszile, Miami University