Current Conferences
"(Re)Negotiating Nostalgia: Building Curriculum Communities Without Consensus"
31st Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice
Bergamo Conference Center
Dayton, OH, US
October 14, 2010 – October 16, 2010
We have been called upon by Professor Janet L. Miller, the founding organizer (with William F. Pinar) of Bergamo Conference and JCT, to complicate our relationships with the histories of the North American Curriculum Field. In her keynote address titled, "Nostalgia for the Future: Imagining Histories of JCT and Bergamo," delivered at last year's 30th Anniversary Bergamo Conference, Professor Miller theorized nostalgia in a more nuanced way that has the potential to allow us to carry our pasts forward in transformative rather than restrictive ways. Traditional understandings of nostalgia (romanticized longings for the way we believe things were) may bind our scholarly communities to repeating stagnant discourses bound by the limitations of these perceived histories. She cautions curriculum scholars to avoid making imperialist nostalgic claims such as declaring the Reconceptualization a victory over the Tyler Rationale. Instead it is nostalgia for the future, what she describes as a "most modest form of nostalgia", that we must collectively undertake. This year's Bergamo Conference asks that we engage with our possible futures by pulling apart the slices of these histories and understanding these shifting memories as constantly in-the-making.
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