1st Edition

Towards a Just Curriculum Theory The Epistemicide

Edited By João Paraskeva Copyright 2018
    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    270 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Towards a Just Curriculum Theory: The Epistemicide responds to a need for ‘alternative ways of thinking about alternatively’ about education and curriculum. It challenges the functionalism of both dominant and specific counter-dominant education and curriculum perspectives and in so doing suggests an Itinerant Curriculum Theory (ICT) as a new path for the field. The volume brings challenges critical educators to decolonize and to deterritorialize, providing scholars and educators a more nuanced analysis. By offering strategies to achieve a just curriculum theory, and by positioning curriculum theory to establish social and cognitive justice, this book aims to educate a more just and democratic society. With contributions from leading scholars across the field education, this volume argues that to deny the existence of any epistemological form beyond the Western mode can be a form of social fascism, which leads to an uncritical reading of history. Together, the essays offer and encourage a more deliberative, democratic engagement that seeks to contextualize and bring to life diverse epistemologies, value-sets, disciplines, theories, concepts, and experiences in education and beyond.

    Contents





    Preface



    Can Civilization Survive Capitalism?



    Noam Chomsky



    Chapter 1



    The struggle towards a non-functionalist critical river



    João M. Paraskeva



    Chapter 2



    Imperialist Desires in English Only Language Policy



    Donaldo Macedo



    Chapter 3



    Africana Philosophy



    Paget Henry



    Chapter 4



    Decolonizing Western Universalisms



    Decolonial Pluri-versalism From Aime Cesaire to the Zapatistas



    Ramon Grosfoguel



    Chapter 5



    Against Coloniality: On the Meaning and Significance of the Decolonial Turn



    Nelson Maldonado-Torres



    Chapter 6



    Educational Reforms Hostile to the Arts and Humanities



    Neoliberalism and Citizenship



    Jurjo Torres Santome



    Chapter 7



    Education, Knowledge and the Righting of Wrongs



    Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti



    Chapter 8



    Toni Morrison and the Discourse of the Other: Against the Hypocrisy of Completeness



    Cameron McCarthy, Rushika Patel, Brenda Nyandiko Sanya



    Conclusion



    Curriculum as a Scandal



    João M. Paraskeva

    Biography

    João M. Paraskeva is Professor of Education Leadership and Policy Studies at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, MA, USA.