Against the scandal: itinerant curriculum theory as subaltern momentum
ISSN: 1443-9883
Article publication date: 7 March 2018
Issue publication date: 10 May 2018
Abstract
Purpose
Keeping Spivak’s essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” in mind, the purpose of this paper is to examine the itinerant curriculum theory (ICT) as a subaltern momentum unveiling how ICT informs subaltern ways of being and thus, potentially, the research lens for qualitative approaches. In this context, the paper examines how curriculum as an ideological devise produces an epistemicide – the killing of knowledge – an epistemological havoc cooked up daily in the process of qualitative studies promoting and legitimizing a specific modern western Eurocentric episteme.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper dissects modernity as a colonial zone, creating “abyssal thinking,” a eugenic system of visible and invisible distinctions that legitimizes the visible, i.e. “this side of the line” and produces “the other side of the line” as “non-existent.”
Findings
The paper urges the need to decolonize leading modern western Eurocentric counter-hegemonic traditions such as Marxism.
Originality/value
The paper analyzes ICT’s contribution to subaltern struggles, asserts ICT’s commitment against any form of canon, grabs the educational matrix of qualitative research as an eugenic beast from its very own ideological horns, alerting the need to examine any study of education and society within the ideological eugenic political economy and modes of production of systems pillared by poverty, exploitation, segregation, and intellectual rape.
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Citation
Paraskeva, J.M. (2018), "Against the scandal: itinerant curriculum theory as subaltern momentum", Qualitative Research Journal, Vol. 18 No. 2, pp. 128-143. https://doi.org/10.1108/QRJ-D-18-00004
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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