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This book urgently confronts systems of privilege and oppression within education, and combines concepts including bifocality, currere, and conscientização to highlight the role of dialogical and autobiographical reflection in dismantling neoliberal and colonial logics at the level of theory, policy, and practice.
The author purposefully connects methods and concepts from curriculum, social studies and the arts, and offers insights into identity formation, social position, and social transformation. As such, Jales Coutinho presents an opportunity for curricularists to evaluate the connections between their lives and their work within and across mutually-constitutive discursive and material contexts, and critically analyze their agency, their relational encounters, and their position as changemakers within unjust social realities. Focusing on the intersection of curriculum theory with educational policy and leadership, the text calls for a mutual "becoming conscious" to illustrate how this can affect a paradigmatic shift toward social justice education, lived curriculum, and emancipatory pedagogy.
With the potential to expand and set the tone for a long-standing curriculum conversation for curriculum theorists, educational leaders and policymakers concerning the contours and dimensions of our work in schools, research institutions, and policy circles, it crucially asks: what does it mean to engage in the complicated conversation of curriculum work in a post-reconceptualist era?
List of contents
1. Introduction 2. Engaging in the complicated conversation of curriculum work in a post-reconceptualist era 3. A short autobiographical account about conscientização: Critically bifocalizing 'self' and 'work' to learn to become 4. Reconceptualizing the concept of 'informed dialogue' in policy circles: Embracing curriculum 'as lived' 5. Valorizing the autobiographical con(text) in curriculum work to learn to become 6. Conclusion
About the author
Allan Michel Jales Coutinho has earned his Bachelor of Arts in International Development in Education from Green Mountain College, USA, and Nagoya University, Japan. He is also a graduate from the International Education Policy Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Allan has engaged in pivotal scholarly work in the field of Curriculum Studies in Canada, at the University of Toronto and at the University of British Columbia.
Summary
This book urgently confronts systems of privilege and oppression within education, and combines concepts including bifocality, currere, and conscientização to highlight the role of dialogical and autobiographical reflection in dismantling neoliberal and colonial logics at the level of theory, policy, and practice.
