This volume is a beacon against the epistemicidal nerve of the field. The volume explores numerous critical, post-structural, anti-colonial, and decolonial epistemological avenues to help dismantle such an epistemicidal blueprint. In doing so, contributors of the volume enjoy and explore the limitless potential of the itinerant curriculum theory to interrupt and disestablish the fieldâs original sin: eugenics. The volume champions a newer, itinerant theoretical path that addresses the theorycide the field is facing and calls for a radical cohabitus of multifaceted epistemological perspectives within and beyond Modern Western Eurocentric platforms, recognizing the worldâs diverse and varied epistemological perspectives to address its needs. The volume unveils the splendour of the itinerant curriculum theory in the struggle against the educational epistemicide.
João M. Paraskeva is a Mozambican-born prolific public intellectual, pedagogue, and critical social theorist. The critique refers to Paraskeva as one of the most exceptional scholars writing in the curriculum field today (McCarthy); âundeniably one of the most acclaimed curriculum theorists in the world todayâ (Autio).
Foreword: Talking Differently about Curriculum
âDaniel Tröhler
List of Figures and Table
Notes on Contributors
1 Curriculum Transmodernity: Towards a Non-Derivative Itinerant Curriculum Theory
2 Transmodernity and Interculturality: An Interpretation from the Perspective of Philosophy of Liberation
âEnrique D. Dussel
3 Epistemic Disobedience and the Decolonial Option: A Manifesto
âWalter D Mignolo
4 ââ¬ÅOtherââ¬Â Knowledges, ââ¬ÅOtherââ¬Â Critiques: Reflections on the Politics and Practices of Philosophy and Decoloniality in the ââ¬ÅOtherââ¬Â America
âCatherine Walsh
5 Shifting the Geography of Reason in an Age of Disciplinary Decadence
âLewis R. Gordon
6 Decolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and Paradigms of Political Economy: Transmodernity, Decolonial Thinking, and Global Coloniality
âRamón Grosfoguel
7 Enrique Dusselââ¬â¢s Liberation Thought in the Decolonial Turn
âNelson Maldonado-Torres
8 Teaching for the End of the World (As We Know It): Decolonizing the Curricular Limits of Modernity
âAntonia Darder
9 Pedagogies of Conflict: Neo-Colonial Contradictions in Russiaââ¬â¢s Invasion of Ukraine
âPeter McLaren
10 Beyond Curricular Monumentalism: Whiteness as a Defense against Thinking
âNoah De Lissovoy and Celine Norman
11 Itinerant Curriculum and Cultural Contact in the Transmodernity of the World-Worlds
âAlicia de Alba
13 Pedagogic (De)Coloniality and the (Im)Possibility of a Transmodern Curriculum of English in Argentinaââ¬â¢s Initial Teacher Education Courses
âGraciela Baum
15 Decolonizing Early Childhood Education and Care in Serbia: Itinerancy of One Reform
âDragana Pureà ¡eviÃâ¡, à ½ivka Krnjaja and Nevena MitraniÃâ¡ MarinkoviÃâ¡
16 Recovering Critical Education: An Escape Route from Curriculum Theorycide
âPhillip D. Th. Knobloch
Afterword: A Pluriversal Itinerary of Epistemic Rupture
âFatma Mñzñkacñ
Index
The general audience will include scholars and students in education, sociology, philosophy, political science, peace studies, and interdisciplinary studies at both the undergraduate and, especially, graduate levels. The specific audience will include educators, decision-makers, policymakers, and those concerned with a more comprehensive approach to education and curriculum that addresses the social context. This book may also be of interest to human rights advocates, NGOs, think tanks, and others engaged in progressive causes. Given the current political context and the reality of ongoing visible and invisible warfare within the global social landscape, this book may also attract the attention of journalists and some members of the broader public.