Curriculum

João M. Paraskeva is Full Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, where he is founder and Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Program Director of the EdD/PhD in educational leadership and policy, and is also Director for the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture. His latest books are The Curriculum: A New Comprehensive Reader (co-edited with Shirley Steinberg, forthcoming), Transformative Educators and Researchers for Democracy: Dartmouth Dialogues (co-edited with Thad LaVallee, 2015), International Critical Pedagogy Reader (co-edited with Antonia Darder and Peter Mayo, 2015), and Conflicts in Curriculum Theory: Challenging Hegemonic Epistemologies: Education, Politics and Public Life (2011/2014).

«The book in your hands signals the birth of Post-Epistemicidal Curriculum Studies. As powerfully demonstrated here, the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies Task Force of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies boldly grounds the field in a critical creolization Contributors to this volume dialogue with texts and traditions otherwise unseen or erased by normative constructs and parochial attachments to a local academic milieu. Implicitly acknowledging critiques of an ‘American canon’ of curriculum studies as erasing parallel epistemologies and practices in a centuries-long tsunami of colonial dominance, these authors study and translate material from non-Western, nonwhite scholars; they interrogate their own positionalities, geo-economic status, and professional commitments, inside and outside of complex, hybrid identities and memberships in overlapping, as well as distinct, communities. The collective accomplishment establishes curriculum studies as an ethical stance upon the world – at once trans-national, post-cultural, and alter-global, while committed to recognition and countering dispossession.»(Peter Appelbaum, Director of Disciplinary and Transdisciplinary Programs, Arcadia University; President, The American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies)«At the eleventh annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (AAACS) in New Orleans in 2011, the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies Task Force made an important and radical move in the internationalization of curriculum studies. Following the epistemological work of Southern theorists such as Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Enrique Dussel, Walter Mignolo, Raewyn Connell, Fernando Coroníl, and Gayatri Spivak, João M. Paraskeva and the task force began a bold and ambitious project to remediate a Statesian- and Anglophone-dominated curriculum studies field. Radical in its conceptions and the new directions suggested for curriculum studies, Paraskeva and the task force have begun to reorganize the field in a way that recognizes decolonizing knowledges and traditions as fundamental in approaching the curriculum question: what knowledges are of most worth? Recognizing the colonial relation as the fundamental historical event shaping knowledge production, Paraskeva frames the task force’s initial efforts here as a necessary decolonizing move that reaches backwards historically to renew the field.»(James C. Jupp, Georgia Southern University)

• João M. Paraskeva: The Curriculum: Whose Internationalization? – Boaventura de Sousa Santos: Beyond Abyssal Thinking: From Global Lines to Ecologies of Knowledges – João M. Paraskeva: Curriculum: The Need for a Radical Copresence – Todd Alan Price: Las Etapas de la Educación y Revolución: Literacy, Communism, and Democracy from Raúl Ferrer to Tao Xingzhi – Seungho Moon: Tasanhak, Korean Neo-Confucianism, and Curriculum Studies: Complicating Conversations in Human Nature, Knowledge, and Justice – Andrea Baldwin: The Internationalization of Curriculum Studies: The Contribution of Jamaica’s Marcus Mosiah Garvey – Dinny Risri Aletheiani: Indonesian Curriculum Theorist: Ki Hadjar Dewantara – Kaoru Miyazawa: In the Third Moment in Curriculum Studies: A Dialogue Between Seikatsu Tsuzurikata and Critical Pedagogy – Oksana Jackim: Anton Semyonovich Makarenko, A Few Western Myths Debunked – Elizabeth Janson/João M. Paraskeva: Curriculum Counterstrokes and Strokes: Swimming in Nonexistent Epistemological Rivers Dialoguing with Sousa Santos – João M. Paraskeva: Itinerant Curriculum Theory: A Reiteration.