{"title":"The idea of distance in data-driven curriculum policy making : a productive critique","authors":"Andreas Nordin","doi":"10.14288/TCI.V15I2.191062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/TCI.V15I2.191062","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this article is to develop a productive critique of the neoliberal idea of distance as it has come to be expressed within the context of data-driven curriculum policy making. The argument is structured around three expressions of distance (spatial, methodological, and relational) related to different levels of policy making. A critical examination shows that the production and use of numerical data have come to influence policy makers at all levels, equating what is of educational value with what can be made measurable and therefore comparable. Furthermore, it shows that standardizing the way education is thought and acted out by policy makers and practitioners according to an evaluative rationale leads to problematic reduction of the educational imagination, distancing educational actors from each other. Non-affirmative educational theory is used to develop a more reflexive position understanding that the answer to what is of educational value emanates from communicative interactions allowing different educational aims to coexist and influence each other. The productivity of the critique developed in this article, therefore, lies in its ability to enrich the educational discourse and to widen the imagination of the alternatives scenarios of educational futures at hand.","PeriodicalId":40918,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Curriculum Inquiry","volume":"15 1","pages":"26-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43482624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Non-affirmative Education Theory and Discursive Institutionalism as Possibilities for Curriculum Research: Foreword to a Special Issue","authors":"Michael Uljens","doi":"10.14288/TCI.V15I2.191061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/TCI.V15I2.191061","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40918,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Curriculum Inquiry","volume":"15 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42929592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"World of Technology:: Better or Blinding?","authors":"Latika Raisinghani","doi":"10.14288/TCI.V15I1.190718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/TCI.V15I1.190718","url":null,"abstract":"By sharing the technological eclipses that have shadowed many lives in multiple cultural contexts, in this paper, I attempt to explore the meaning of technology by revisiting Ferneding’ s quest to understand technology. I share how humanity, immersed in technoculture, in its ongoing pursuit for salvation through technological inventions, has in turn become a slave of technology. In an attempt to awaken our collective moral consciousness and break this technological cocoon, I join Grant in re(thinking): “What technology is”? For guidance, I turn to Heidegger who invites us to contemplate technology as an intellectual capacity. I hope to invite technology as a technoscience — a way of uncovering nature and illuminating life amid teaching, learning and living encounters of education that do not technicalize schooling to alienate our self from us, but call for love and belongingness as we engage in complicated conversations to understand curriculum.","PeriodicalId":40918,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Curriculum Inquiry","volume":"15 1","pages":"34-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45531841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transformation of Teachers as Active Agents in Curriculum Building","authors":"Carola Hernández, Milena Benítez, Irma Alicia Flores","doi":"10.14288/TCI.V14I1-2.189307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/TCI.V14I1-2.189307","url":null,"abstract":"The policy 40x40 Curriculum for Excellence and Comprehensive Education was conceived as the proper framework to design and implement programs to offer quality education in the framework of the Bogota Humana District Government Plan. Nevertheless, there is a struggle in relation to the curriculum in Colombia: on one hand, the Law established curricular autonomy and on the other the teachers and educative researchers who oppose pedagogy to the curriculum. Thus, for the development of this public policy in Bogota, the Center for Research and Formation in Education–CIFE- design and offered a teacher training for the re-signification of the concept of curriculum and the empowerment of teachers in building curricula in line with the proposals of the policy and responding to their particular contexts. This article shares the results of the systematization of the experience (Jara, 1994; Jara, 2006) lived in the course by answering two questions: What are the perceptions of the teachers about the course? And, what are the main ideas learned by the teachers in the course? The results of this study show that the course designed shows some divergences and convergences of the curricular realities faced by teachers in institutions. Among the tensions were identified, in addition to the new demands that students and teachers generate to the institutional curriculum, the difficulty to make decisions in relation to the curriculum change. Within the convergences, the results show that the designed course is a pertinent and suitable strategy for the diffusion and appropriation of the policy documents.","PeriodicalId":40918,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Curriculum Inquiry","volume":"14 1","pages":"142-156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44276291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Internationalization and \"Pensamiento Curricular Latinoamericano\"","authors":"D. F. J. Mardones","doi":"10.14288/TCI.V14I1-2.189932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/TCI.V14I1-2.189932","url":null,"abstract":"This text draws upon the concept of internationalization in Curriculum Studies to self-reflect on the existence and possibilities of Latin American curriculum thinking. I think of internationalization not just as a moment of the U.S. field but also as a dimension of Curriculum Studies thought from a planetary horizon. Therefore, grounding my understanding of internationalization as a dimension of the field of curriculum here by juxtaposing the historical development of the field in the United States in relation to Latinoamerica, I would like to suggest again that the next step to building an international field of curriculum studies is enlarging the conversation beyond its Anglo-Saxon and European influences. My work may be understood as an attempt to bring the Latin American educational tradition more strongly into the international conversation that is now Curriculum Studies. In doing so, I am, to some extent, rejoining two educational traditions, the Latina American and the Anglo-American, to continue a conversation already begun in the 1970s but interrupted since then.","PeriodicalId":40918,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Curriculum Inquiry","volume":"14 1","pages":"19-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43429814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding the Process of Internationalization of Curriculum Studies in China: a Case Study","authors":"Mei Wu Hoyt","doi":"10.14288/TCI.V13I1.188312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/TCI.V13I1.188312","url":null,"abstract":"The movement to internationalize curriculum studies has initiated complicated worldwide conversations incorporating different nations, intellectual histories, and diversified curriculum visions. However, questions remain regarding how internationalization works in different contexts, what the goals are of such work, and in what ways it might influence the formalization of the field. How local intellectuals’ research on this topic serves to constitute and function in the process of internationalization is an area requiring further study. In examining the vanguard work of a curriculum studies center in China, this qualitative research seeks to understand the forces that drive internationalization in China, and how Chinese curriculum scholars function with, through, and around the process of “complicated conversation.” This research demonstrated that political forces, social realities, and education intellectuals are the primary subjects mobilizing and sustaining the internationalization of curriculum studies, traditional Chinese culture and wisdom serve as the foundation for equal dialogue with the international community, and the nature of the internationalization process appears to be unbounded and democratic. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000课程国际化进程已促使不同国家间,不同智识传统间展开了“复杂对话”并且成就了不同的课程观。 然而,在不同的环境下,国际化工作如何进行,他们的希冀如何,又会走向何方,这些国际化工作又是怎样影响课程领域的发展还不明朗。本土的智识传统在国际化进程中的作用是什么值得进一步探索。在对中国的一个课程研究前沿中心的调研中,这个质性研究试图理解在中国有什么样的力量推动课程国际化,他们又是怎样在课程国际化历程中围绕“复杂对话”与国际上的智识来展开合作与对话。研究表明,政治力量、社会现实、和教育知识分子促进着中国的课程国际化,中国传统智识被认为是开展国际对话的根本,课程国际化的历程本身体现灵活多元而又民主的。","PeriodicalId":40918,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Curriculum Inquiry","volume":"13 1","pages":"56-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66902934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fear and Cheating in Atlanta: Evidence for the Vulnerability Thesis","authors":"Steven Khan","doi":"10.14288/TCI.V11I1.184212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/TCI.V11I1.184212","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper I foreground the widely reported and highly visible case of cheating in Atlanta Public Schools (APS) in order to argue that the descriptions presented in the report can be taken as providing some of the missing empirical evidence for Callahan’s (1962) Vulnerability Thesis. The thesis seeks to explain why North American (US) administrators in the early 20th century gave in to demands that had little educational merit. It was Callahan’s proposal that their vulnerability to criticism and insecurity of tenure explained a significant part of the ease with which they capitulated to administrative pressure. I propose that revisiting earlier work in education and curriculum studies to provide evidence (or comment on lack of evidence) is important for the development and health of the field. Further, I suggest that, assuming that the concept of ‘vulnerability’ will be an explicit focus of work in this century, new curriculum discourses and frameworks will have to be developed in order to better study the inter-related vulnerabilities of educators as is already occurring in other fields.","PeriodicalId":40918,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Curriculum Inquiry","volume":"11 1","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2014-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66902921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a Curriculum of Vulnerability and Blandness: Insights from Levinas and Classical Chinese Thought","authors":"Jinting Wu","doi":"10.14288/TCI.V10I2.184255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/TCI.V10I2.184255","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines two counterintuitive notions—vulnerability and blandness—to rethink the possibility of ethics in our troubled times and the capacity of education to forge potentials and bonds in curriculum spaces. By reading Emanuel Levinas and classical Chinese thought, this article considers vulnerability and blandness not as the limits of human existence, but as the very condition of how to live as humans. In the context of Levinasian and classical Chinese thought, vulnerability and blandness are not something to dispel, but a rich link with the world and our intimate involvement with the great process of things. A curriculum of vulnerability and blandness is unthinkable within the ontological structure of western historiography and the curriculum studies canon. It opens subjectivity onto inderdependence, prevents us from slipping into particularity and partiality, and provokes a deep moral tenor both through the Levinasian “awe” with which we approach the others, and through the Taoist “blandness” with which we strive for the true flavor. Blandness and vulnerability, prompting one to perpetual and never-ending discovery, is the richest and most meditative of pedagogical modes.","PeriodicalId":40918,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Curriculum Inquiry","volume":"10 1","pages":"49-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2013-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66903336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}