(NAME-MCE) CFP: CURRICULUM AND PEDAGOGY CONFERENCE

[Carli Kyles]

Call for Proposals- Due April 30, 2007

http://www.curriculumandpedagogy.org/call_for_proposals.html

8th ANNUAL CURRICULUM AND PEDAGOGY CONFERENCE

OCTOBER 3-7, 2007

BALCONES CONFERENCE CENTER,
MARBLE FALLS, TEXAS

http://www.curriculumandpedagogy.org/conference.html

Democratizing Educational Experience:
Envisioning, Embodying, Enacting

The Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference is a gathering of diverse individuals
seeking academic enrichment, social action, and professional engagement; it is
an annual space where work can be shared, valued, and disseminated to a diverse
audience committed to educational reform and social change. The conference
creates democratic spaces to advance public moral leadership in education
through dialogue and action. It is characterized by its commitment to classroom
teachers, school administrators and curriculum workers and in providing a venue
for under-represented groups. The conference organizers seek to bring together
individuals from diverse settings, including school district curriculum leaders
and K-12 teachers, non-governmental community groups and organizations,
graduate students and scholars from public schools to universities who seek to
integrate, interrogate, and develop curriculum and pedagogical theories into
action for educational empowerment and social justice.

The conference fosters democratic community building, collective scholarship,
social action, and examination of school-based issues within an informal,
collegial setting. In the spirit of generous, visionary minds such as John
Dewey, Maxine Greene, George Counts, Alice Miel, and Horace Mann Bond, the
curriculum field needs to begin a conversation on the public moral dimensions
of curriculum work. In the context of the diverse critical curriculum work over
the past thirty years, curriculum scholars and practitioners have not, as yet,
collegially established the public ethics for our field. Nor have we done a
particularly good job in connecting our activities into the public life; and
have too often become ensnared in narrow, exclusive projects and ideologies. We
believe that it is imperative that we deepen our critical insights into the
historical, political, personal, aesthetic, spiritual, and institutional
subtexts and contexts of curriculum impact daily educational practices.
Curriculum studies--and the ethical conduct that is congruent with such
studies--must become part of the fabric of everyday public life as well as
connected into everyday curricular and pedagogical practice.


Thirty years and more of struggles to "reconceptualize" the curriculum field
have led to the creation of safe places in the form of conferences and journal
publications where our reach is and has been limited. While our work in
curriculum and pedagogy informs our colleagues and, perhaps, changes the nature
of our writing, discourse, and courses, we remain outside the public square.
The Curriculum and Pedagogy conference offers those who share a common faith in
democracy and a commitment toward public moral leadership an opportunity to
change that. Participants are committed to the principles of democracy,
transparency, and agency and invite you to join our organizing efforts.