1st Edition

Curriculum and the Generation of Utopia Interrogating the Current State of Critical Curriculum Theory

By João M. Paraskeva Copyright 2021
338 Pages
by Routledge

338 Pages
by Routledge

338 Pages
by Routledge

As a follow-up to Towards a Just Curriculum Theory and Curriculum Epistemicide , this volume illuminates the challenges and contradictions which have prevented critical curriculum theory from establishing itself as an alternative to dominant Western Eurocentric epistemologies. Curriculum and the Generation of Utopia re-visits the work of leading progressive theorists and draws on... Read more

1. What Happen to Critical Curriculum Theory? The Need to go Above and Beyond Neoliberal Rage Without Avoiding It;  2. ‘Retrogressive Anthropogenesis’ or the Great Regression;  3.El Patron Colonial de Poder. Game Over! To Resist Re-Existing and/or Re-Exist Resisting;  4. What Happen with Critical Curriculum Theory!;  5. The Generation of the Utopia: ‘Don’t Shoot Them!’;  6. Curriculum Involution. Severe Occidentosis;  7. ‘Don’t Shoot the Utopists’. Decolonize it.

 

Biography

João M. Paraskeva is Professor and Founding Chair of the Department of
Education Leadership and Program Director of the EdD PhD in Education
Leadership and Policy Studies at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, MA, USA.