An In-Person CONFERENCE
2023 Call For Proposals
Theme: Celebrating “Divisive Concepts:” Responding to Attacks on Public Education
The Planning Council of the Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative (CSSC) invites your submissions for our 12th annual meeting. Each year, the CSSC brings together diverse individuals within and beyond the field of Curriculum Studies. This year we will be meeting face-to-face only for the first time in a few years. We appreciate everyone supporting the conference through the online and hybrid years, but we look forward to being fully in-person in 2023. We feel that it is only through face-to-face engagement with each other and each other’s work that we can really foster the spirit of the Collaborative. The Collaborative was developed to promote dialogue and cooperative action among established and emerging curriculum scholars, including graduate students. It is a process-oriented, generative, collaborative space intended to support the ongoing work of the field and inspire innovative curriculum work.
Our theme this year is: Celebrating “Divisive Concepts”. We have all been challenged by the political establishments at different levels this past year. Professors and teachers have witnessed the erasure of their academic freedom with education becoming an intentional political point of fear mongering and moral panics once again. This time, and there will be more times, censorship of literature and critical race theory have become the targets for attacks. For this conference we would like to encourage presenters and attendees to reflect on the many ways we as professors and teachers can push back against the free flow of ideas and use of moral panics to push back against civil rights. Derrick Bell, many years ago, noted that equality does not move forward unless white elites allow it. His statement has rung true now for over forty years and we see the attack on literature and critical race theory to be motivated by an assumption that it is white elites who are under attack and being discriminated against? How do we as professors and teachers communicate with parents and students who reject certain forms of literature and critical race theory because they believe it is an attack on their core beliefs rather than an attempt to create a more equitable society?
WHAT IS THE CSSC CONFERENCE?
Promoting Dialogue and Cooperative Action
Welcome to our ninth annual Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative. Each year, the CSSC brings together diverse individuals within and beyond the field of Curriculum Studies. The Collaborative was developed to promote dialogue and cooperative action among established and emerging curriculum scholars, including graduate students. It is a process-oriented, generative, collaborative space intended to support the ongoing work of the field and inspire innovative curriculum work.
A New Journal
Editors:
Marla Morris
Daniel Chapman
Mission Statement:
The Curriculum Studies Collaborative Journal (CSCJ) is an outgrowth of the Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative. The CSCJ encourages dialogue and cooperative theorizing by promoting interdisciplinary scholarship that responds creatively to the theoretical and social moment in which we are situated. We embrace ideas that provoke, instigate and challenge orthodoxies inside and outside of the field.
Editorial Board:
Peter Applebaum
Brian Casemore
Julie Garlen
Peter McLaren
William Pinar
Shirley Steinberg
Denise Taliaferro
Peter Trifonas
Lelia Villaverde
Ugena Whitlock
Marla Morris
Daniel Chapman
Mission Statement:
The Curriculum Studies Collaborative Journal (CSCJ) is an outgrowth of the Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative. The CSCJ encourages dialogue and cooperative theorizing by promoting interdisciplinary scholarship that responds creatively to the theoretical and social moment in which we are situated. We embrace ideas that provoke, instigate and challenge orthodoxies inside and outside of the field.
Editorial Board:
Peter Applebaum
Brian Casemore
Julie Garlen
Peter McLaren
William Pinar
Shirley Steinberg
Denise Taliaferro
Peter Trifonas
Lelia Villaverde
Ugena Whitlock