The Editorial Team of JCT is proud to announce the release of its newest issue (Vol 32, No 3).  Click here or the cover image below to access our most recent issue.

With great pleasure the JCT Leadership Team announces that Dr. Thomas Poetter of Miami University Ohio has been appointed as Editor of the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing and President of the Foundation of Curriculum Theory.  Dr. Poetter will be building his team to begin work in January 2019.

Thomas S. Poetter, Ph.D., is Professor of Curriculum Studies and Graduate Studies Director in Miami University’s Department of Educational Leadership (EDL). He will assume the role of EDL Department Chair in July of 2018.  Tom graduated from Heidelberg College with a BA in Business and English in 1985 and entered Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ, earning a Master of Divinity degree (M.Div.) in 1988.  Poetter served as a high school English teacher, basketball coach, and chaplain in Indiana before continuing his education at Indiana University where he earned his Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction in 1994.  After three years as an assistant professor at Trinity University, San Antonio, Poetter returned to Ohio and Miami University as an assistant professor in the College of Education, Health, and Society in 1997.  Tom is an award-winning teacher and author ~ he has published over 20 books as author, editor, or co-editor and over 50 articles and book chapters in the field of curriculum studies. From 2001-2011, Tom directed school/university partnerships for Miami in the Southwest Ohio region, and opened the university’s Partnership Office as its founding director in 2005.  In 2014, Tom ran for the 8^th district congressional seat in the US House of Representatives and published a campaign memoir about the race, “Losing to Boehner, Winning America.”  In 2016, he co-created a new conference and journal in education with Miami colleague Denise Taliaferro Baszile called “The Currere Exchange.”  Tom also served as 2017 Factotum of Professors of Curriculum, and recently chaired AERA Division B’s (Curriculum Studies) Dissertation Award Committee in 2018.

 

 

 

 

The current JCT editorial team is very excited to (re)publish Issue 1, Volume 1 of the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing.  This issue is the first of what we hope to be many republished archived issues. The editorial team has been collecting older issues and then uploading the digitized articles to the website. As we do not have access to all the articles in each issue, the issues will be republished on the website as an incomplete and ongoing project. We hope to fill in the gaps as we receive access to more articles. Please contact us with questions or information regarding this archival project at: managingeditor@jctonline.org.

You may access Issue 1, Volume 1 at: http://journal.jctonline.org/index.php/jct/issue/view/Winter%201979

Best Regards,

JCT Editorial Team

Call for Papers

The Curriculum of Disability Studies: Multiple Perspectives on Dis/Ability

Journal of Curriculum Theorizing Special Issue

Guest Editors:

Jamie Buffington-Adams, PhD   

Kelly Vaughan, PhD 

In this special edition of the Journal for Curriculum Theory (JCT), we seek articles focused on The Curriculum of Dis/Ability Studies. Please note that we embrace a Disability Studies perspectives that dis/ability cannot be represented narrowly; therefore, we seek to highlight a multiplicity of voices (representing different experiences and academic fields) to address dis/ability in education and society.  As such, we are calling for articles from those who identify as curriculum scholars, practitioners, and disability studies scholars. Strong submissions would draw from both the literature of Curriculum Studies and the literature of Disability Studies (and/or Disability Studies in Education).

Articles may address one of the questions below; however we will also consider pieces with other themes that draw from both Curriculum Studies[1] and Disability Studies[2].

• How do/could scholars bring a disability studies perspective to address the quintessential curriculum studies questions: What knowledge is of most worth? Who decides? Who benefits?
• How do/could educators in pre-K -16 spaces employ a disability studies perspective in their pedagogical and/or curricular approaches to education?
• How do/could scholars incorporate disability studies perspective in their work for social justice within schools?

Please note that we seek to compile seven to ten brief (five to seven page) articles for this special edition.  Please submit your 2500 – 3500 word article to jabuffin@iue.edu by May 5, 2018. Please include a cover sheet with your biographical information, institutional affiliation, and contact information. Your article must include your theoretical framework, methodological approach, findings/themes, and significance.  You article should not contain any identifying information.

You will be notified if your proposal was accepted by mid June, 2018.

Jamie Buffington-Adams
Assistant Professor
School of Education, Indiana University East
jabuffin@iue.edu

Kelly Vaughan
Assistant Professor
School of Education and Counseling, Purdue University Northwest
vaughak@pnw.edu

[1] We draw attention to the fact that JCT is “[h]istorically aligned with the “reconceptualist” movement in curriculum theorizing, and oriented toward informing and affecting classroom practice, JCT presents compelling pieces within forms that challenge disciplinary, genre, and textual boundaries.”

[2] Please note that we draw from the Disability Studies in Education SIG, which conceptualizes disability studies as a way  “to promote the understanding of disability from a social model perspective drawing on social, cultural, historical, discursive, philosophical, literary, aesthetic, artistic, and other traditions to challenge medical, scientific, and psychological models of disability as they relate to education.”  Disability Studies, as a field, is committed to social justice in schools and society. It is also important to note that the “interest, agendas, and voices of people labeled with disability/disabled people” are central. (http://www.aera.net/SIG143/Disability-Studies-in-Education-SIG-143)

 

 

Call for Papers

Curriculum Theorizing in The Post-Truth Era

Journal of Curriculum Theorizing Special Issue

Guest Editors:

Rouhollah Aghasaleh, PhD   

 Ligia (Licho) López López, PhD 

The guest editors of Journal of Curriculum Theorizing invite article submissions for a special issue on Curriculum Theorizing in The Post-Truth Era. Submissions from established and new scholars are welcome. The special issue will be published in Spring 2019.

After the 2016 presidential election many scholars, institutions of higher education, and educators have released statements to support minoritized communities, immigrants, and other historically underserved groups. Several urban school districts reported a major drop in school attendance by Latinx and LGBTQI students who feel threatened and unsafe. The intensification of discourses and the performance of (what has been socially constructed as) racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and bigotry are unquestionable. How is education participating, resisting, refusing, and reinscribing these discourses and practices? During her concession speech, Clinton said the nation is “more deeply divided than we thought.” She was referring to a breakdown of the election results and the existing racial, gender, faith, class, and educational disparity. Education as a proxy of privilege is critical here. However, with Republicans controlling the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the government, higher education will become even less accessible to populations living “in an alternative reality.” This makes public education more important and our work, as educators, even more critical. Some questions to ponder are: How do we teach those whose perspectives differ from us? What are the funds of knowledge of young people in Trumster families? What is the role of education in engaging with a large group of US citizens who relate to post-truth politics?

To this end, educators, students, curriculum scholars, and activists across the country have written on issues such as the problem of a “neutral” curriculum for education, the role of educators, social justice education, undocumented students, fake news, women’s lives, environmental justice, ethno-nationalims, school re-segregation, the clash of civilizations, and more.

This special issue will address questions such as:

• How did post-truth emerge and what were the conditions of its possibility?
• What is the place of curriculum theorizing in this post-truth politics era?
• How could professional organizations and scholars of education navigate the post-truth era?
• How do post-truth politics affect critical curriculum theory and practice?
• How can critical educators work with minoritized communities, immigrants, Black and Brown folx, Indigenous and first nation peoples, Muslims, and groups of marginalized students and their families?
• How could educators reach out to children of the Trumpsters in their classrooms? What are their funds of knowledge? And how would these inform the field of curriculum theorizing?
• How will social grassroots movements and issues that threaten immigrants, communities of color, LGBTQI communities, etc. inform public education in the post-truth era?
• Are there elements of the clash of civilizations thesis operating in generating the current states of affairs societies are seeing in and beyond the United States?
• What historical and philosophical means could be invoked to meditate and sit with in the present moment?
• What futurities might we see emerge from a persistent refusal of the orders that have come to normalize the violence inflicted on particular bodies?

* This special issue welcomes alternative formats such as, but not limited to, spoken word poetry, comics, arts-based approaches, essays in addition to more conventional research publications, working papers, theoretical pieces, and historical analysis.

Please, submit your 500-word abstract to jctposttruth@gmail.com by February, 28 2018.

Important Dates:

Abstracts Due:                 Feb. 28, 2018

Decision on Abstracts:     Apr. 30, 2018

Full Manuscripts Due:     Aug. 30, 2018

Publication:                      Spring, 2019

JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing is an interdisciplinary journal of curriculum studies. It offers an academic forum for scholarly discussions of curriculum. Historically aligned with the “reconceptualist” movement in curriculum theorizing, and oriented toward informing and affecting classroom practice, JCT presents compelling pieces within forms that challenge disciplinary, genre, and textual boundaries.

The journal is published by the Foundation for Curriculum Theory and is associated with the Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, held in the autumn of each year. JCT is indexed in The Education Index.

NOTICE: As of December 2008, the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing (Volume 24, Issue 1) and all future issues are available freely and exclusively online to all individuals and institutions.

Contributors to the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing retain copyright to their work. ISSN: 1942-2563

Rouhollah Aghasaleh, PhD

Department of Middle and Secondary Education, Georgia State University

Email: raghasaleh@gsu.edu

Ligia (Licho) López López, PhD

Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne

Email: lllopez@unimelb.edu.au