37th Annual Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice

Bergamo Conference Center, Dayton, Ohio
October 13–15, 2016

The Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice has served as a gathering place for theorists/practitioners and practitioners/theorists, including teachers, students, scholars, administrators, cultural workers, from various perspectives and all walks of life, to join in dialogical and collaborative encounters since 1969. Committed to bringing different and diverse discourses into public conversations, the conference welcomes all viewpoints in forming a shared community of dissensus. The conference encourages innovative styles of presenting intellectual work in the field of curriculum theory.


THEME: Curriculum Theory as It Stands

In addition to the categories listed above, submissions can take guidance from this year’s theme: Curriculum Theory as It Stands. While previous calls for this conference have dealt with the field temporally, considering its past and future, this call provokes us to consider the present moment of Curriculum Theorizing.  Although not intending to be a “state of the field” discussion, proposals should instead posit the field’s present moment in relation to other discussions occurring in the wider context of educational research and other fields of contemporary study.  Furthermore, proposals can consider “things as they stand” from both the ontological and the epistemological, considering both what is theorized and who is doing the theorizing.  Obviously, the Bergamo conference itself is open to analysis and critique in terms of its bearing as one of the present places such theorizing occurs.