You are cordially invited to attend the book launch of Love in the Post-Reconceptualist Era of Curriculum Work: Deliberations on the Meanings of Care. 1st Edition (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2023)
Author | Allan Michel Jales Coutinho (EDCP Doctoral Student)
Foreword by | Dr. William F. Pinar
- Date | Friday, April 14, 2023 | 11:00 a.m. (PT)
- Online | Zoom information
- Host | Dr. William F. Pinar
- Panelists | Kieran Forde (EDCP Doctoral student), Ying Ma, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Jill Morris (EDCP Doctoral student).
Book Description
By employing the autobiographical method of currere and bifocalization, this book sheds light on the significance of love and the ethics of caregiving as means to transform curriculum studies into a post-reconceptualist and collective endeavor.
Advancing an understanding of curriculum as a “collective public moral enterprise,” it critically asks whether we can build a world where love is not negotiated, but only proliferated. Through the creation of short and interconnected autobiographical narratives about the meanings of love, the author provides pivotal insights for curricularists who labor in conflicting and paradoxical contexts. As such, the book seeks to demonstrate how the labor of “love fortification” may be accomplished in a world of agonistic, antagonistic, and competitive becoming(s). Highlighting the role of caregiving, this book questions the role of evaluations in post-reconceptualization and provides insights for educators and policymakers on how to promote “actualization” and reconciliation in schools in contexts across the global-north and -south.
Engaging with a long scholarly tradition that ultimately seeks to understand the meanings of love in our lives and in our work, supporting the “historization” of the field of curriculum, and with an international focus, this book will appeal to scholars and students with interests in curriculum studies and curriculum theory.
Allan Michel Jales Coutinho is a PhD student in Curriculum and Pedagogy at UBC and a new Resident Member of Green College. Previously, he researched policy and curriculum studies at the University of Toronto and at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in International Development in Education from Green Mountain College and Nagoya University.
Allan will be joined in conversation by Alim Fakirani (PhD student, Curriculum and Pedagogy), who has an interests in the representation of refugee, immigrant and minority peoples’ histories in social studies curricula in Canada, and how such representation can help strengthen the vitality of Canadian democracy; Sonia Huda (PhD student, Curriculum and Pedagogy), who has ten years of teaching experience and a passion for curriculum theories; and Bruce Moghtader (Centre for Community Engaged Learning), where he oversees the design and delivery of professional development programs for faculty and students with a focus on Community Engaged Scholarship and social impact. Bruce is also author of Foucault and Educational Ethics (2016).
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