Deficit-Laden Use of Constructs in Anti-Oppressive Curriculum

Vonzell Agosto, Ashley White, Maria Migueliz Valcarlos

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Abstract

This work explores racism/ableism in connection to the Black/White, deficit, and positivist
paradigms. We aim to crip the curriculum (Erevelles, 2011) by bringing attention to the kinds of work constructs do to advance anti-oppressive curriculum, curriculum leadership, and curriculum theory. Through critique that tears at the limits of the paradigms that threaten to [“blind”] bind us, we hope to spur work(s) and study/studies that refuse(s) a scripted curriculum (Agosto, 2014) and welcome dis/orderly and dis/orienting reflection.
Original languageAmerican English
JournalJournal of Curriculum Theorizing
Volume34
StatePublished - 2019

Keywords

  • Dis/ability
  • anti-oppressive education
  • social justice leadership
  • spectral analysis
  • curriculum theory

Disciplines

  • Curriculum and Social Inquiry
  • Disability and Equity in Education
  • Educational Leadership

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