ERIC Number: EJ1374745
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-1682-3206
EISSN: EISSN-1947-9417
Re/thinking Curriculum Inquiry in the Posthuman Condition: A Critical Posthumanist Stance
Education as Change, v26 Article 11460 2022
In the reconceptualisation era of curriculum studies, scholars drew on a range of theories such as existentialism, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, feminism, poststructuralism, and especially critical theory. They used critical theory as a lens to examine the influence of social and political forces on curriculum, in particular the role of dominant ideologies on schooling and higher education in capitalist societies. In this article we explore some of the limitations this has, especially with regard to the current posthuman condition, without repudiating all the benefits that it has offered. Then we re/think curriculum studies in the posthuman condition, drawing on insights from a particular strand of posthumanism, critical posthumanism. We experiment with the real, as well as with what a reconceptualised subject (one that is ecological) might mean for curriculum inquiry in South Africa. In our exploration, we re/think the curriculum concepts: curriculum-as-lived, curriculum as complicated conversation, and "currere."
Descriptors: Curriculum, Inquiry, Humanism, Critical Theory, Ideology, Educational Research, Educational Theories, Ecology, Foreign Countries, Epistemology, Phenomenology
Education as Change. The Centre for Education Rights and Transformation, Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg, PO Box 524, Auckland Park, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa. Tel: +27-11-5591148; e-mail: journal-ed@uj.ac.za; Web site: https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/EAC
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: South Africa
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