Curriculum: Decanonizing The Field (Counterpoints)

Curriculum: Decanonizing the Field is a fresh and innovative collection that is concerned with the totalitarian Western Eurocentric cult that has dominated the field of curriculum studies. Contributors to this volume challenge dominant and counter-dominant curriculum positions of the Western Eurocentric epistemic platform. At a time when the field laudably claims internationalization as a must, arguments presented in this volume prove that this internationalization is nothing more than the new Western expansionism, one that dominates all other cultures, economies and knowledges. "Curriculum: Decanonizing the Field" is a clarion call against curriculum epistemicides, proposing the use of Itinerant Curriculum Theory (ICT), which opens up the canon of knowledge; challenges and destroys the coloniality of power, knowledge and being; and transforms the very idea and practice of power. The volume is essential reading for anyone involved in one of the most important battles for curriculum relevance - the fact that there is no social justice without cognitive justice.

• | Author: João M. Paraskeva|Shirley R. Steinberg, João M. Paraskeva
• | Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• | Publication Date: Jan 28, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 731 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Education
• | ISBN-10: 1433114224
• | ISBN-13: 9781433114229