Full Description
The largest specialization in faculties of education in Canada is curriculum studies. Curriculum Studies in Canada represents the present preoccupations of curriculum scholars in Canada. Set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, contributors engage with significant themes, among them ongoing efforts at justice for Indigenous Peoples, the continuing arrival of immigrants and refugees, Canada's complex relationship to the United States, and issues related to the climate crisis.
Addressing such realities through the field of curriculum studies and the school curriculum is critical at this historical conjuncture given the complex and shifting intersections of local and global dynamics restricting education. To this end, contributing scholars serve as intellectual activists to address the critical need for understanding curriculum responsive to the vexed relations among schools, nation-building, social reconstruction, and identity development. Their activism yields more sophisticated understandings of what it means to be educated in Canada. Contributors trace the legacy of their work and reflect on their present scholarly preoccupations in light of their past endeavours. In doing so, Curriculum Studies in Canada offers an invitation to readers: to study, remember, dialogue, and navigate an uncertain world with them.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Curriculum Studies in Canada
William F. Pinar
1. Storying Curriculum as International Text
Kumari Beck
2. Schooling for Building Just Peace: Comparative and Canadian Perspectives on Facing Difference, Conflict, and Violence in Education
Kathy Bickmore
3. Beauty in the Shadows: Curriculum Change and the New BC School Science Curriculum
David Blades
4. Indigenous Students and Settler Teachers Caught in the Double Bind of Settler Schooling
Susan Dion
5. Questions of Witnessing: Historical, Contemplative/Nondual, and Ecological
Claudia Eppert
6. From Goose Feather Pen to Keyboard: Does the School Form Still Have Its Relevance in the Contemporary World?
Clermont Gauthier
7. The Curricular Landscapes of Sex Education: Curriculum-as-Checklist Meets the Queer Curriculum Practices of LGBTQ+ Youth
Jen Gilbert
8. Which Story of the Canadian Experience Should We Tell Our Young People?
Jocelyn Létourneau
9. Unavoidable Middles: Dilatory Methods of Reading and Comics Creation in Teacher Education
David Lewkowich
10. Reconstructing Curriculum Studies in Canada: Life Writing, Settler Colonialism, Truth, and then Reconciliation
Nicholas Ng-A-Fook
11. Early Childhood Curriculum Studies: An Intellectual Engagement
Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw
12. The Radical Pedagogy of Climate Striking in a Petroculture
Jackie Seidel, Sidrah Anees, Emily Blackmore, and Kelsey MacKenzie
13. Disquieting Returns
Teresa Strong-Wilson
Epilogue: Curriculum Studies in the Shadowlands
Anne M. Phelan
List of Contributors
Index
