Division B Fireside Chat. Reimagining Curriculum Studies in the Age of Shrinking Public Education and Privatization

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

For this fireside chat, we ask the following critical question: How can we reimagine curriculum studies in the age of shrinking public education and ruthless privatization? Ravitch (2013) warned us about the dangers of an aggressive privatization of education. This movement is the result of the current standardization of learning, which narrows curriculum and limits critical thinking (Ravitch, 2013). Curriculum studies have been a hallmark of public education. However, pushing the boundaries and possibilities of curriculum in various communities is no easy battle. This battle will continue to be difficult with the ever increasing threats to public education. We hope that the invited scholars will help us think to through these issues as graduate students developing our own research agendas.

Sub Unit

• Graduate Student Council

Chairs

• Tiffany M Nyachae, Buffalo State - SUNY

• Lateasha Meyers, Miami University - Oxford

Participants

• Wayne Au, University of Washington - Bothell

• Bianca Jontae Baldridge, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• David L. Carlson, Arizona State University

• Michael J. Dumas, University of California - Berkeley

• Bree Picower, Montclair State University

• Debbie Sonu, City University of New York (CUNY)

• Ashley Nicole Woodson, University of Missouri