Public Seminar: Curricular Discourses with Practical Implications: Perspectives and Experiences From Spain & South America

September 22, 2016  |  11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Neville Scarfe Building (2125 Main Mall), Room 310
All are welcome to attend!

This seminar brings together scholars from Spain and South America working within a variety of curriculum studies traditions to discuss curriculum issues in contexts ranging from elementary education to higher education. The seminar will be an opportunity to explore how curricular discourses have implications in educational practices in local, national, and global contexts.

A National Curriculum: Educational Standardization or Common Cultural Base
Renato Gazmuri, Assistant Professor, Universidad Diego Portales (Chile)
Dr. Gazmuri received his PhD at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain)

Student Activism: Building an Alternative Educational Logic in Opposition To Corporatized Learning
Sandra Delgado (Colombia)
Ph.D. Student in Curriculum Studies, University of British Columbia

Curriculum as Symptom: Local Experiences of Global Designs
Fernando M. Murillo (Chile)
Ph.D. Student in Curriculum Studies, University of British Columbia

Critical Literacy in the Social Studies Elementary Classroom
Breo Tosar (Spain)
Ph.D. Student in Social Studies Education, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Human Rights in the Curriculum: Precarity and Complexity
Héctor Gómez (Chile)
Ph.D. Student in Curriculum Studies, University of British Columbia

Sponsored by the Institute for Critical Education Studies.

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