ERIC Number: EJ1456898
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-1443-9883
EISSN: EISSN-1448-0980
Against the Scandal: Itinerant Curriculum Theory as Subaltern Momentum
João M. Paraskeva
Qualitative Research Journal, v18 n2 p128-143 2018
Purpose: Keeping Spivak's essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" in mind, the purpose of this paper is to examine the itinerant curriculum theory (ICT) as a subaltern momentum unveiling how ICT informs subaltern ways of being and thus, potentially, the research lens for qualitative approaches. In this context, the paper examines how curriculum as an ideological devise produces an epistemicide -- the killing of knowledge -- an epistemological havoc cooked up daily in the process of qualitative studies promoting and legitimizing a specific modern western Eurocentric episteme. Design/methodology/approach: The paper dissects modernity as a colonial zone, creating "abyssal thinking," a eugenic system of visible and invisible distinctions that legitimizes the visible, i.e. "this side of the line" and produces "the other side of the line" as "non-existent." Findings: The paper urges the need to decolonize leading modern western Eurocentric counter-hegemonic traditions such as Marxism. Originality/value: The paper analyzes ICT's contribution to subaltern struggles, asserts ICT's commitment against any form of canon, grabs the educational matrix of qualitative research as an eugenic beast from its very own ideological horns, alerting the need to examine any study of education and society within the ideological eugenic political economy and modes of production of systems pillared by poverty, exploitation, segregation, and intellectual rape.
Descriptors: Power Structure, Minority Groups, Educational Theories, Curriculum Development, Ideology, Epistemology, Decolonization, Political Attitudes, Western Civilization, Educational Change, Genetics, Selection, Heredity, Antisocial Behavior, Social Structure, Racial Attitudes, Social Attitudes
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