Journal of curriculum theorizing 

About: Journal of curriculum theorizing is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Curriculum & Curriculum theory. It has an ISSN identifier of 1057-896X. Over the lifetime, 404 publications have been published receiving 3777 citations.

Curriculum, Replacement, and Settler Futurity

Abstract: This paper describes the ways in which “curriculum” has been and continues to be a project of settler colonialism, premised on white settler supremacy. We examine a number of ways in which this has manifested and how various attempts at interrupting this not only get sidelined, but reappropriated in ways that re-inscribe settler colonialism and settler futurity through strategies of replacement. We use the character of Natty Bumppo from James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales as an allegory for the ways in which white settlers seeks to absorb indigenous peoples, people of color and their knowledges, only to turn themselves into the “native.” While various interventions have tried to dislodge the aims of replacement, the settler colonial curricular project of replacement is relentless in its recuperation and absorption of those critiques, effectively replacing those who offered the critiques with (now) more informed white bodies.

Governmentality and Academic Work: Shaping the Hearts and Minds of Academic Workers

Abstract: Over the last twenty years the liberal university has increasingly been transformed into the neoliberal or audit university. Academics are re-constituted within the audit university as an enterprising collective of individuals working within an enterprise model of the academy. This paper is about the ways in which academic subjects are re-shaped and re-shape themselves, singly and collectively, through the technologies of management and self management, including the technology of audit. We attempt here to generate a perspective that dismantles the belief in the inevitability of the enterprise model of the university and its power to shape the academics within it.

A Brief and Personal History of Post Qualitative Research: Toward “Post Inquiry”

Abstract: In this paper, the author explains her difficulty with the disconnect between the concepts and practices of “conventional humanist qualitative methodology” and postmodern and poststructural theories, especially the disconnect between their ontologies. She describes her own history as an academic researcher who studied humanist qualitative methodology and post theories simultaneously but separately, illustrating the too-common separation of qualitative methodology from the epistemology and ontology with which it is entangled. She encourages scholars to actually use the ontological critiques offered by the “posts” and to engage the new empiricisms of the ontological turn, perhaps using futural concepts as methods in post qualitative inquiry or “post inquiry.”

Youth Moves : Identities and Education in Global Perspective

Abstract: Foreword. Acknowledgments. Series Editor's Introduction Allan Luke Introduction: Youth, Mobility, and Identity Nadine Dolby and Fazal Rizvi Section 1: New Times, New Identities 1. The Global Corporate Curriculum and the Young Cyberflaneur as Global Citizen Jane Kenway and Elizabeth Bullen 2. Shoot the Elephant: Antagonistic Identities, Neo-Marxist Nostalgia, and the Remorselessly Vanishing Past Cameron McCarthy and Jennifer Logue 3. New Textual Worlds: Young People and Computer Games Catherine Beavis Section 2: Diasporic Youth: Rethinking Borders and Boundaries in the New Modernity 4. Consuming Difference: Stylish Hybridity, Diasporic Identity, and the Politics of Culture Michael Giardina 5. Diasporan Moves: African Canadian Youth and Identity Formation Jennifer Kelly 6. Popular Culture and Recognition: Narratives of Youth and Latinidad Angharad Valdivia 7. Mobile Students in Liquid Modernity: Negotiating the Politics of Transnational Identities Parlo Singh and Catherine Doherty Section 3: Youth and the Global Context: Transforming Us Where We Live 8. The Children of Liberalization: Youth Agency and Globalization in India Ritty Lukose 9. Youth Cultures of Consumption in Johannesburg Sarah Nuttall 10. Identities for Neoliberal Times: Constructing Enterprising Selves in an American Suburb Peter Demerath and Jill Lynch 11. Disciplining "Generation M": The Paradox of Creating a "Local" National Identity in an Era of "Global" Flows Aaron Koh 12. Marginalization, Identity Formation, and Empowerment: Youth's Struggles for Self and Social Justice David Quijada

Toward a Posthumanist Education

Abstract: The text of our manifesto will introduce posthumanism to a curriculum studies audience and propose new directions for curriculum theory and educational research more broadly. Following a description of what is variously called the “posthuman condition” or the “posthuman era,” our manifesto outlines the main theoretical features of posthumanism with particular attention to how it challenges or problematizes the nearly ubiquitous assumptions of humanism. In particular, we focus on how posthumanism responds to the history of Western humanism’s justification and encouragement of colonialism, slavery, the objectification of women, the thoughtless slaughter of non-human animals, and ecological devastation. We dwell on the question of how posthumanism may alter our understanding of the claim “education is political,” since humanism has shaped our very notions of “education” and “politics.” After outlining posthumanist discourse generally, and detailing the conceptual challenges it poses for education, we propose a list of possible new avenues for curriculum studies research opened up by posthumanism.