After an extensive search process chaired by Isabel Nunez with search team members Denise Baszile and Brian Casemore, we are naming our new editing team and Bergamo conference hosts: Rouhollah Aghasaleh and Tristan Gleason from California State Polytechnic University in Humboldt. Their term begins January 1, 2025, and runs through December 30, 2030. Longtime members of the Curriculum Studies community, Rouhollah and Tristan have a great support team and have secured funding to support the journal and conference for their six-year term. Please join us in congratulating and supporting them on these next steps in their endeavors.
We are pleased to invite proposals for the 44th edition of the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing‘s annual Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice.
Our theme this year is “Peace Education and Curriculum.”. Please click this Link for detailed information on the 2024 call for papers.
For this conference, we essentially ask you to consider :
How do scholar practitioners in the curriculum studies field understand, know, want, create, mistake, and cultivate peace in education, curriculum, pedagogy, politics, religion, economy, health, sexuality, etc. from many perspectives, or not?
In addition to work addressing the conference theme, we invite a wide range of submissions that revolve around, but are not limited to, the following categories:
Cultural Studies and Curriculum
International/Transnational Curriculum Discourses
Engaging Texts
Higher Education and Curriculum Theorizing
Curriculum Studies and Philosophical Perspectives
Curriculum Theory, Classroom Practice, and Disciplinary Perspectives
Here is a link to the conference proposal submission portal. The portal will be open through August 12, 2024.
We are pleased to invite proposals for the 2024 edition of the JCT ’s annual Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice.
Our theme this year is “Peace Education and Curriculum.” Please click this Link for complete details on this year’s call.
For this conference, we ask you to consider: How do scholar practitioners in the curriculum studies field understand, know, want, create, mistake, and cultivate peace in education, curriculum, pedagogy, politics, religion, economy, health, sexuality, etc. from many perspectives, or not?
In addition to work addressing the conference theme, the organizers invite a wide range of submissions that revolve around, but are not limited to, the following categories:
Cultural Studies and Curriculum
International/Transnational Curriculum Discourses
Engaging Texts
Higher Education and Curriculum Theorizing
Curriculum Studies and Philosophical Perspectives
Curriculum Theory, Classroom Practice, and Disciplinary Perspectives
Here is a link to the conference proposal submission portal. The portal will be open through August 12, 2024.
Thank you so much for your tremendous
personal and professional support of The Journal of Curriculum
Theorizing and the Bergamo Conference this past year. We started
off with such great energy hosting our first conference as a team with you
in Fall of 2019. It was a tremendous meeting, one of the best professional
meetings I have ever been involved with. We celebrated our 40th
anniversary, had a strong turnout of over 150
registrants, and heard stimulating and challenging papers and presentations
along with powerful keynote speeches.
In 2019, building on the steady and great
work of the previous editors, Rob Helfenbein and Gabe Huddleston, we published
5 journal issues and we worked through 2020 to publish 4 more outstanding
issues of the journal. This required tremendous teamwork and
support. We are especially grateful to Kelly Waldrop for her outstanding
leadership as managing editor and for the section editors and reviewers who
kept the work moving.
Amid the challenges brought on by the
pandemic and social upheaval, the cancellation of the 2020 meeting at Bergamo
in October had a great impact on our community. We all missed our usual
communications about the conference and coming together. The cancellation of
the conference was further amplified as we faced challenges with getting
reviews completed in a timely manner resulting in some manuscripts not moving as
quickly as they should have through the review system. The strain on
institutional resources this year has increased the workload for many and the
mental stress of the year has affected us all in profound ways. Simply put, these
factors impacted the time and energy many of our reviewers and staff were able
to sustain for the work. As we move into the new year, we are working as hard
and as quickly as we can to regroup and maintain an efficient and timely review
process for manuscript submissions.
And no matter what, we will have a
meeting in October of 2021! We hope it is in person in Dayton, under the
theme “Curriculum as Luminous” as we had planned to execute last
Fall. Even if we can’t meet in-person, we will hold a virtual meeting and do
our best to capture the excitement and excellence of our Bergamo
meetings. In the meantime, Cynthia Sanders, our conference program chair, and
Kristan Barczak, our co-conference program chair, are working on and planning several
Facebook Live and Podcast special programs for the coming year. Please
look for announcements about these events in late January and plan to participate. We
appreciate those of you who have made suggestions and stayed in touch.
Everyone’s effort is necessary to keep the work going. As we look forward
to a new year, we ask you to consider investing in our community by
volunteering to review manuscripts, writing and submitting your own work,
and making plans to join us in 2021 for several new online programs and the
annual meeting in October.
Be well and make 2021 a great year with
us. We really appreciate the opportunity to serve the field and look
forward to many connections with you in the new year.