Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice
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"(Re)Negotiating Nostalgia: Building Curriculum Communities Without Consensus"
October 14, 2010 – October 16, 2010We 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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"Curriculum in Motion: A Moment of Celebration, Critique and Contemplation"
October 15, 2009 – October 17, 2009Anniversary is a moment of blending the lived past, the anticipated future, and the present-in-the-making, a moment of celebration, critique, and contemplation. Embedded in the richness, complexity, and vitality of its 30 years of history, the Bergamo Conference is also situated in the transitions of today's world to create the world anew. Avoiding nostalgia or utopian naivety, this anniversary conference is committed to transforming the educational present, enriched by the past, energized by the future.
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"Complications, Connections, and Crossings: Curriculum in Motion"
October 16, 2008 – October 18, 2008Check out Photos from the 2008 Conference!
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