GSEHD Community Takes Part in JCT Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice


October 31, 2024


GSEHD was tremendously represented by faculty, students, and alumni at the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing's 44th Annual Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice at Bergamo.
 
  • Dr. Sandra Vanderbilt presented a paper, "Won't You Be My Neighbor: Despair, Hope, and Fred Rogers," on a panel titled, Gratitude, Care, Community: dis/Ability Theorizing and Curricula of Presence. She also presented a paper titled, "Daisaku Ikeda and Poetics of Peace, Justice, and Value Creation as a Curriculum of Peacebuilding." 
    • In exciting news, Dr. Vanderbilt was nominated and selected as General Topics Editor for the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing.
  • Dr. Brian Casemore was a respondent on two book panels: an all-conference panel titled, A Panel Discussion of Tom Poetter's book, Curriculum Fragments: A Currere Journey Through Life Processes (Routledge, 2025) and, along with GSEHD graduate Dr. James Burns, a panel titled, The Confessional and Sharing of Being in Curriculum Theorizing, focused on the recently published Curriculum as Confession: the Promise of Teaching for Selfhood and Truth (Routledge, 2025) by Christopher M. Cruz.
  • Dr. Casemore also organized and facilitated a panel titled, Negotiating the Inner and Outer Dimensions of Dialogue in History, Theater, and Anti-racist Education, featuring the scholarship of alumni Liam Goff (master's, Curriculum and Instruction) and David Kongstvedt (master's, Curriculum and Instruction), and doctoral student Catherine Wigginton Greene (Curriculum and Instruction).
  • Doctoral student Carola Goldenberg (Curriculum and Instruction) presented the paper, “The World Language Classroom as a Site of Exploration and Self-Formation: Subjective in the Encounter with Difficult Knowledge.”
  • Alumnus Dr. Dowan McNair-Lee (Ed.D., Curriculum and Instruction) of the University of the District of Columbia presented two papers: “‘I Got on the 36 Bus with My Reglia On’: A Rumination on Place and Peace” and “Collective Black Feminist Currere as Experienced Through the Work of Salt-N-Pepa.”
  • Alumna Dr. Rachel Talbert (Ed.D., Curriculum and Instruction) of Teachers College Columbia University presented the paper: “‘Manhatta is a Lenape Word’: Curricular Movement Toward and Away from Peace.”
  • Dr. James Burns (Ed.D., Curriculum and Instruction) of the University of New Mexico presented the paper: “What Knowledge is of Most Worth? Reflection on Israel, Gaza, War, Truth, and the Banality of Evil.” Dr. Burns was also a respondent on an all-conference panel titled, Confabulating Complicated Conversation, A Panel Discussion of Susan Mayer’s Book: Practicing Pragmatism Through Progressive Pedagogies: A Philosophical Lens for Grounding Classroom Teaching and Research (Routledge, 2024).