Foundation for Curriculum Theory

Dear Friends,
Remember that proposals for the Bergamo Conference are due this week, August 10.  We are looking forward to receiving and reviewing your proposals to present at this year’s conference, October 10-12, 2019, the 40th conference of JCT held in Dayton, Ohio.  
Just two weeks ago we announced that Janet Miller will be our keynote speaker on Saturday October 12, and two amazing colleague scholars from the curriculum field will also be joining us as keynote speakers:  Rubén Gaztambide-Fernandez on Thursday night October 10 and Theodorea Berry on Friday night October 11.  We are so pleased to have all three of these great scholars with us for the conference, to share in our time together and to speak directly to us about their work.  More details about their talks will be forthcoming.
Also, please join me in thanking Rouhollah Aghasaleh, special edition editor and organizer, for the outstanding special issue of JCT just published at our website on Post-Truth. Go to http://journal.jctonline.org/index.php/jct to take a look at the articles.  This is a thoughtful, stimulating, and provocative set of articles, several of which I’m already working into my Fall reading for students.  Be sure to read Rouhollah’s acknowledgments at the end of his opening piece, noting the many hearts and minds that contributed to this timely special issue.
Finally, when we return to Dayton in October, we will be returning to a great city, torn apart by violence.  Dayton recently lost much in devastating Spring tornados, and of course this weekend, like El Paso, lost more citizens in a mass shooting that claimed so many lives.  But as an Ohioan, I can attest to the robust and indefatigable spirit of our citizens, who are tough and kind and good.  My hope is that much will change in the meantime, and that we will be steps down the road toward healing, and perhaps further into the complicated conflicts that could yield justice, and peace.  I hope.
Best regards to all, Tom Poetter, JCT Editor

It’s time! We are open for submissions and registration for the 2019 Bergamo Conference. Hoping you will join us for this opportunity to come together in community to share the good work and conversation in October.

To submit a proposal from June 25- August 10th please click here Submissions Link

To register for the conference please click here Conference Registration

The latest issue of JCT is now available for review at
http://journal.jctonline.org/index.php/jct . We are also accepting manuscripts for future issues via this same link.

We are excited to share the 2019 Bergamo Conference Call for Proposals. This year’s conference theme is

The Transformational Power of Curriculum Studies

Friends, 
We are so pleased to announce the publication of the first issue of The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing this year.  We want to thank the previous JCT editing team for all of the work they did to get the issue procured and into shape, and for their assistance in our transition to publish the work.  And of course to the editing team for the special issue, and all of the authors of the articles in it, thank you for sharing your work and expertise with friends/readers of JCT, Bergamo Conference goers, the scholarly community, and the world. By way of introduction, the issue co-editors, Jamie Buffington-Adams (Indiana University East) and Kelly P. Vaughn (Purdue Northwest), offer this introductory note in their opening piece, “The Curriculum of Disability Studies: Multiple Perspectives on Dis/Ability, an Invitation to Complicated Conversations”:
“In this special edition, we invited scholars from the fields of Curriculum Studies and Disability Studies to present work about the curriculum of dis/ability. The scholars featured in this special edition have taken up the call in a variety of ways, including auto-ethnographical reflection, analysis of existing curricula, arts-based theorizing, and reflections on classroom interactions. Through these works, we offer not a prescriptive approach to infusing Disability Studies into Curriculum Studies (or vice-versa), but rather an invitation to our readers to theorize through intersectional and interdisciplinary lenses” (p. 1).
Perhaps one marker of excellent work is that early readers are already recommending that students and scholars read it now!  Since the final copy hit the editorial mailbox a week or so ago, I have been reading and suggesting the articles to students and colleagues.  On behalf of our managing editor, Kelly Waldrop, thank you to everyone for your assistance in the transition to our new editing team, for sharing such outstanding work to be read and discussed and used.  Please read and comment on the pieces in your work ahead.

Many best regards, Thomas Poetter, Editor and Kelly Waldrop, Managing Editor