VOLUME 4(2) • 2016
CURRICULUM STUDIES AND HISTORICIZING THE PRESENT: THE POLITICAL AND IMPRACTICALITY OF PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE
ABSTRACT. We titled this special issue Curriculum Studies and Historicizing the Present: The Political and Impracticality of Practical Knowledge in order to speak about the politics of schooling in an unconventional way. To historicize the present is a strategy to study curriculum through the rules ..
HISTORICIZING AFFECT IN EDUCATION
ABSTRACT. In this article, we historicize affective dimensions of teaching by asking, What does it feel like to be a teacher in a particular time and place? We explore three blocs of affect that engulfed teachers in the 1955 to 1970 period: the mindlessness of U.S. schooling practices; the push for ..
CATHOLICISM AND REPUBLICANISM: SHAPING THE REASON OF THE CITIZEN IN EARLY 19TH CENTURY ARGENTINEAN SCHOOLING
ABSTRACT The goal of the article is to explore what often is placed in opposition—the secular and the theological—in order to interpret their historical intersections in the production of Argentinean citizens. Through a genealogical discourse analysis, I investigate how religious discourses become i..
LANGUAGE, SCIENCE, AND A MISSION: ANOTHER LOOK AT PLURALISM
ABSTRACT. In matters of diversity and indigenous education, language and linguistic revitalization have become central in correcting historical wrongs. This paper is a historical examination into language, activities, tactics, and modes of reasoning difference as indigenous through educational engag..
THE LIMITS OF “KNOWLEDGE FOR ALL”: HISTORICIZING TRANSNATIONAL SCHOOL REFORMS IN KENYA
ABSTRACT. This is a historical and comparative study of the “reason” of transnational school reforms in Kenya. The analysis compares two reforms separated by ninety years—the Jeanes School, Kabete (1924–1939) and Bridge International Academies (2009–present)—in order to make visible continuities and..
THE ACTION-COMPETENT CHILD: RESPONSIBILIZATION THROUGH PRACTICES AND EMOTIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
ABSTRACT. This article problematizes the educational practice of action competence. This practice is said to be a way to empower students, making them willing and able to genuinely engage in environmental issues. The aim is to show how the notion of action competence culturally shapes certain kinds ..
POWER IN THE CHILD AS A PROBLEM SOLVER: MAKING MATHEMATICAL PEOPLE AND THE LIMITS OF STANDARDIZATION
ABSTRACT. This article examines the use of the equal sign (=) in the Standards-based math reforms during the 1980s in the United States. Exploring the equal sign in the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Curriculum and Evaluation Standards (1989) math problems, the aim is to highligh..