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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.
December 15th, 2010
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Education
School of Teaching and Curriculum Leadership
Stillwater, Oklahoma
Position: Assistant Professor, Curriculum Studies, Tenure Track, Oklahoma State University-Stillwater
(contingent upon available funding)
Responsibilities: 1) Teaching graduate level courses in Curriculum Studies, with emphasis in one or more of
the following: multicultural and diversity issues in curriculum; curriculum theory and theorizing; curriculum
inquiry; curriculum history; preK-12 curriculum; media literacy; teacher research. 2) Advising Masters and
doctoral students and directing their research projects; participating in graduate student recruitment. 3)
Conducting a program of research and publication in areas within or related to Curriculum Studies; active
involvement in appropriate professional organizations; grant writing. 4) Service on departmental, college,
and university committees. Primary assignment would be OSU-Stillwater with some responsibilities at the
OSU-Tulsa campus.
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November 16th, 2010
Dear Journal of Curriculum Theorizing/Bergamo Community:
We need your help in identifying curriculum studies scholars who would benefit from being involved in the American Educational Research Association, Division B (Curriculum Studies), New Faculty Seminar: Finding/Creating/Engaging Spaces to Research/Write/Publish. The seminar will be co-facilitated by Debra Freedman (University of Guelph) and Erik Malewski (Purdue University). The pre-conference seminar will be held from April 7-8, 2011 in New Orleans (prior to the 2011 AERA conference). Read the rest of this entry »
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November 11th, 2010
As curriculum theorists we face the fact that the conversation about curriculum has been appropriated by corporations, governor associations, federal entities, and activist school boards. The Common Core Standards, now adopted by nearly every state, have become the most public of the corporate curricula.
• We believe that the Common Core Standards, devised by the National Governors’ Association, are neither common to the diverse populations of our country nor core to the values of social justice or equality in education.
• The Common Core standards, now adopted by over two-thirds of states, rely more heavily than ever on testing, on “skills bases” that don’t ask for creativity or innovation, and on the corporate leanings that have driven curriculum work for the past decade. Read the rest of this entry »
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October 28th, 2010
Graduate Student Award
This award recognizes the scholarship of one student whose work expands upon the themes of this year’s conference and those of the Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies SIG.
Submissions must include a single-authored paper by the graduate student and a letter of nomination from a member of the SIG. Papers may not exceed more than 20 pages (excluding references, tables, appendices). Names and university affiliation should appear only on the cover sheet for blind review. Papers must be in APA or Chicago citation style.
The awards committee will select work with the most promise for contributing to the critical examination of curriculum and curriculum scholarship. The award recipient will be recognized at the annual conference business meeting in New Orleans, LA.
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October 3rd, 2010
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF CURRICULUM STUDIES
TENTH ANNUAL MEETING
Tuesday, April 5- Friday, April 8, 2011
Bourbon Orleans Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana
PROPOSAL DEADLINE JANUARY 2, 2011
Curriculum and Emancipatory Modes of Relationality & Global Interdependence
Our 2011 conference theme asks how our individual and group efforts interconnect with those of others locally and globally to question and/or perpetuate assumptions about the possibilities and limits of educational theory and practice. As an association affiliated with the International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, we seek questions about how scholarship within the American Association interacts with ongoing developments trans-nationally and, more specifically, how those interactions can advance the sensitivity and sophistication of our discourse. Recent curriculum studies scholarship has once again challenged the efficacy of enlightenment as an assumption of educational studies. To investigate the emancipatory potential of a “pedagogical stance” we must study our teaching practices and our educational theories from multiple conceptual, cultural, and contextual perspectives.
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