Seminar Series
2020-2021
Where are we at, in this place and this time, as Canadian curriculum scholars? – Nicholas Ng-A-Fook 1
Each academic discipline comprises a complex system of discursive practice that creates its own dynamics and follows its own laws of structural development. – Carsten Strathausen 2
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To provide glimpses of Curriculum Studies in Canada, Drs. Anne Phelan and William Pinar hosted a seminar series during the 2020-2021 academic year offered completely online.
Registration for attending the seminar sessions in 2021 is now open.
Once you register, you will receive a Zoom link a few days prior to each session date. If you do not receive a link, please email: admin@curriculumstudiesincanada.ca
All sessions will be recorded with the speakers’ permission. The recordings will be posted below and on YouTube (click here to be redirected to the YouTube channel).
Recorded Sessions:
September 23, 2020: Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, University of Ottawa,
“Reconstructing Canadian Curriculum Studies: Life Writing, Settler Colonialism, and Reconciliation”
September 30, 2020: Dr. Jen Gilbert, York University,
“Between Expertise and Advocacy: Sex Education and the Problem of Curriculum”
October 9, 2020: Clermont Gauthier, Université Laval
“Does the School Form Inherited from the 17th Century Still Have Its Relevance in the Contemporary World?”
November 6, 2020: Kumari Beck, Simon Fraser University,
“Storying Curriculum as International Text”
December 1, 2020: David Lewkowich, University of Alberta,
“Reading, Memory, Curriculum, Body: A Psychoanalytic Dialogue.”
December 11, 2020: Jackie Seidel, University of Calgary,
“Imagining Ecologically-oriented and Life-serving Curriculum Practices in a Hostile Petrostate (Alberta/Canada)”
February 16, 2021: Kathy Bickmore, University of Toronto,
“Teaching Social Difference in Handling Conflict: ‘Canadian’ Curriculum Practice in Comparative Context”
February 26, 2021: David Blades, University of Victoria,
“Beauty In Shadows: Curriculum Change and the New B.C. School Science Curriculum”
March 11, 2021: Jocelyn Létourneau, Université Laval,
“What History (to Teach) for What (Future of) Canada?”
March 30, 2021: Claudia Eppert, University of Alberta,
“Ecological Witnessing, Imagination, and Transformation in Canadian and ELA Curricula”
April 29, 2021: Lee Airton, Queens University,
“No More Subjects: Destabilizing the Gender Diversity Curriculum of Teacher Education”
May 13, 2021: Marie-France Bérard, University of British Columbia,
“The Uncertain Profession”: In-dwelling between Curriculum Worlds in Canadian Art Museum Education”
June 22, 2021: Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Western University,
“Education for Worlds to Come”
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- Ng-A-Fook, Nicholas. 2014. Provoking the very “Idea” of Curriculum Studies as a Counterpoised Composition. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 12 (4), 10-68.
- Strathausen, Carsten. 2017. Thing Politics and Science. In Sovereignty in Ruins: A Politics of Crisis, edited by George Edmondson and Klaus Mladek (292-317). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.