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Entering the Intersection of Identity, Form, and Knowledge: Reflections on Curriculum Transformation

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
April 1995

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The academy is currently struggling to face the challenge of curriculum transformation—the attempt to deal with systemic inequality as it is manifested in educational process and content. These struggles turn the classroom into a laboratory where students and teachers must grapple without guidelines with the legacy of patriarchy and imperialism. This paper describes the author's process of working on curriculum transformation with respect to issues of race and ethnicity, from the standpoint of a white, female social work teacher. Such work poses radical challenges to the intersections of one's identity, institutional forms, and knowledge itself. These intersections create the opportunity to raise questions about good teaching and good citizenship.

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L'école se débat constamment pour rencontrer le défi des changements de programmation destinés è faire face aux inégalités systémiques tels qu'ils se produisent dans le processus éducatif et les contenus scolaires. Ces efforts transforment la classe en laboratoire où étudiants et professeurs doivent se déprendre, sans balises précises, de l'emprise des traditions héritées du patriarchat et de l'impérialisme. Cet article décrit la façon d'opérer de l'auteure dans sa transformation d'un programme scolaire pour prendre en compte les problèmes raciaux et ethniques, et ceci è partir de sa position en tant qu'enseignante, blanche, femme, et travailleuse sociale. Un tel travail pose le défi radical de l'articulation des rapports entre l'identité, les cadres institutionnels, et le savoir lui-même. Cette mise en rapport permet de questionner ce qu'est être bon enseignant et être bon citoyen.

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 14Number 1April 1995
Pages: 5 - 14

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Amy Rossiter

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