Authors:Daniel Chapman Abstract: This journal has been a long time coming. When Julie Garlen and myself began the Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative (CSSC) we talked about creating a journal as an extension of the Collaborative. But, we were both early in our careers and it felt overwhelming to take on such a project. So, it was put on hold. The idea came back up a few years ago when Marla Morris joined the planning council of the CSSC. She argued, convincingly, that it was necessary to have more outlets for Curriculum scholars to publish their work. Attaching the journal to the Collaborative was a natural fit. We discussed what it might look like and worked together to get the journal started. PubDate: 2023-02-16 Issue No:Vol. 12, No. 2 (2023)
Authors:Marla Morris, Shirley R. Steinberg, Leila E. Villaverde Abstract: When thinking about a new journal, my first thought about this was to have a multimedia aspect to the journal that would include a series of ongoing podcasts that Daniel Chapman and I would do collaboratively. This turned into The Genealogy Project. Since we began this project about a year and half ago, Daniel and I have interviewed many scholars across generations. As conversations unfolded, I found that many of us have had inter-connected life histories and backgrounds. As I began thinking about a podcast in curriculum studies I thought that it might be a way to archive the work being done by my generation. I wanted to make sure that our work did not disappear from the archives. But, too, I wanted to show that my generation is also linked backwards to previous generations. As Derrida teaches, the archive is more about the to-come. The Genealogy Project Podcast is about archiving the future of a field. What we are able to do in the field today is due to the work that was done by scholars who came before us and mentored us. As my generation mentors future generations to-come, the field will go its own way and take on new life. I would liketo showcase scholars from all generations to join in the conversationswe are having about the field. PubDate: 2023-02-16 Issue No:Vol. 12, No. 2 (2023)
Authors:Erik L. Malweski, Nathalia E. Jaramillo Abstract: The notion of epistemologies of ignorance is a fruitful site at which to probe issues of ignorance and knowledge in relation to the production of both, particularly how blindness becomes the necessary organizer for the insights we make and the interplay of dominant and subjugated discourses jockeying for recognition. (Malewski & Jaramillo, 2011, pg 3).“Epistemologies of ignorance ...center the ‘subject’ -woman, man, child, teacher, student-not as objects of knowledge production, but as sensuous beings who affectively live out the contradictions embedded within ignorance” (Malewski & Jaramillo, 2011, pg. 5). PubDate: 2023-02-16 Issue No:Vol. 12, No. 2 (2023)
Authors:Brenda Rubio, Judith Flores Carmona, Manal Hamzeh Abstract: Employing the method of pláticas (Fierros & Delgado Bernal, 2016), we, feminista Scholars of Color, share our experiences of exacerbatedinequities during a historic moment of multiple, intersecting pandemics—COVID-19 and systemic oppression—at a land-grant, Hispanic Serving Institution located in the southwest borderlands. The first two authors are Mexicanas and first-generation students and scholars. The third author is Arabyya Palestinian feminist. We had pláticas to engage with the anti-racist calls on the streets. The prompts for our pláticas evolved around the “current condition” of our lives in these pandemics and our responses to them on the personal, the professional and the political. We reflected on our responses. Our testimonios surfaced in our pláticas. They revealed the heightened horrors of academia. They also revealed our understanding of our collective selves and politics, and curriculum studies. We co-created a collective testimonio text (Delgado Bernal, Burciaga, & Flores Carmona, 2012) to weave and theorize ourselves within the multiple intersecting pandemics of this moment. We situated ourselves in our specific workplace and drew on testimonio scholarship and Critical Race Theories to contextualize the micro/macro systemic oppression that continues to heighten in academia and society. As feminists of Color, we experienced firsthand how to strengthen our solidarity and compassionate activism. We enacted the Mexican proverb, “del dicho al hecho, hay mucho trecho” as a praxis that opened the possibilities for pedagogical and curricular change—a change that keeps us less fractured and re/membered. PubDate: 2023-02-16 Issue No:Vol. 12, No. 2 (2023)
Authors:Tracie Nicolai Abstract: “[In] fiction we can hide behind characters... memoir asks you to remember as truthfully as you can what actually happened...”-- Elizabeth Nunez in “The Art of Memoir” (The Center for Fiction, 2014, 14:45)“My writing life has been a series of breakings and mendings, a shattering of the writing self that was, a repairing, through writing, of something in my life that warranted understanding and that needed fixing.”-- Louise DeSalvo, The House of Early Sorrows (2018, p. xiii)Woman, why are you crying' Your tears should become your thoughts,--Traditional song, rewritten by the Mahila Samakyha Project, Andhra Pradesh, India (Nussbaum, 1999, p. 2) PubDate: 2023-02-16 Issue No:Vol. 12, No. 2 (2023)