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Announcements
Below you will find news and announcements relevant to curriculum theory and the larger curriculum field as well as occasional guest posts from curriculum scholars. To share content relevant to members of the JCT online community, email submitnews (at) jctonline.org.
January 21st, 2012
Call for Manuscripts
Difficult Returns: Curriculum History Disrupted
Special Issue of Journal for Curriculum Theorizing
Guest Editors: Ann G. Winfield (Roger Williams University) and Petra Munro Hendry (Louisiana State University)
The reconceptualization of curriculum studies has long acknowledged the necessity of historical perspective for the purpose of revealing the ways in which history is, and has been, used to codify socio-political/ideological context. However, we maintain that the reconceptualist move to deconstruct curriculum history has struggled to extricate itself from progressive axioms which are wedded to a teleology of reason, a form of “high modernism.” Consequently, we must Read the rest of this entry »
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January 21st, 2012
Call for Manuscripts
Cultivating the Multicultural Imagination:
Lived Experience, Political Struggle, and Curriculum of Hope
Special Issue of Journal of Curriculum Theorizing
Guest Editors: Suniti Sharma (The University of Texas, Brownsville) and JoAnn Phillion, (Purdue University)
Associate Editor: Jubin Rahatzad (Purdue University)
This special issue articulates the multicultural imagination setting in motion a range of ideas that respond to the complexities of lived experience and political struggle, the dilemmas of historical change, the intersections of art, embodiment and interpretation as powerful sources for curriculum inquiry, theoretical Read the rest of this entry »
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January 21st, 2012
Call for Manuscripts
Narrative of Curriculum in the South:
Lives In-Between Contested Race, Gender, Class, and Power
Special Issue of Journal of Curriculum Theorizing
Guest Editors: Ming Fang He & Sabrina Ross (Georgia Southern University)
This special issue of JCT is a continuation of dialogue on curriculum of the South with a particular focus on the power of counter narrative as a means to contest the official or meta narrative that often portrays disenfranchised individuals and groups as deficient and inferior. It is our intention that the Read the rest of this entry »
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December 28th, 2011
Louisiana State University:
ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE/PROFESSOR
(TENURE-TRACK/FIVE POSITIONS)
The Department of Educational Theory, Policy, and Practice at Louisiana State University, the flagship institution
of the state, seeks applicants for one or more anticipated positions beginning August 2012 in multiple areas.
(All Levels) teaches undergraduate courses in appropriate areas of specialization; collaborates with schoolbased
professionals in Professional Development Schools; (Asst/Assoc/Full Professor) teaches doctoral level
courses; advises graduate students; teaches graduate courses in appropriate areas of specialization including
supervising Master’s teacher-research projects; conducts and publishes scholarly research; participates in
professional and funded activities.
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December 28th, 2011
The University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities:
The College of Education and Human Development invites applications for the position of Assistant or Associate professor in Elementary Education. This is a tenure-track faculty position. The complete posting follows. Please access the University of Minnesota Employment System at https://employment.umn.edu and search for Requisition Number: 175187 to access our online applicatio
n.
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