She Blinded Me With Science: Postcurriculum and the New Science

• In Event: Truth Is the Through Line: Epistemic Archaeology in Curriculum Theory

Abstract

Curriculum scholarship provides the engagement with curriculum differentiation that has defined the field since the beginning. Mainly, curriculum scholars shift from the role of science as arbiter of truth to the politics of truth, as science becomes a target of ideology critique. “Post-curriculum” is a place of radical questioning about the guarantees of a traditional science of curriculum. We explore “new science” not as a rejection of scientific thought and method as much as an assertion of the centrality of skepticism to the scientific endeavor itself. New science recalls the anti-traditionalism of science in the Enlightenment, and post-curriculum is a place of ambivalence that marks a new intellectual place from which to theorize curriculum scholarship’s relationship with science.

Authors

• Zeus Leonardo, University of California - Berkeley

• Dax Ovid, San Francisco State University