Toward a New Ecology of Curriculum: An Education Yet-to-Come

The space of curriculum has been one of disconnection and alienation for both learners and educators. Following the lived and intellectual histories of thinking about education across cultures and contexts, progressive educational movements have struggled between, on the one hand, creating learning environments that center on the nature of the child and their curiosities and, on the other, deconstructing aspects of education that reproduce cultural norms and a learning and teaching habitus directed toward creating a particular type of epistemological subject. What both of these trajectories have in common is that they want to reduce the alienation present in the curricular mandates of educational institutions and reconnect learners and educators to the authentic nature of learning. The authenticity of learning is produced through the inter-actions of and in/between subjects whose voices, actions, and bodies create forms of being in curricular encounters that are unexpected and...