New Spatial Imaginaries for International Curriculum Projects: Creative Diagrams, Mapping Experiments, and Critical Cartography. (June 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: de Freitas, Elizabeth; Sinclair, Nathalie; le Roux, Kate; Solares-Rojas, Armando; Coles, Alf; Ng, Oi-Lam
• Other Names: Harris Daniel guest-editor.; Rousell David guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 28:Number 5(2022)
• Page Start: 507
• Page End: 521
• Publication Date: 2022-06
• Subjects: curriculum -- mapping -- diagramming -- creativity -- Glissant -- mathematical imagination -- place -- spatial politics; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/10778004211068201
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

This article explores the complex relational landscape of international partnerships where local and transnational education objectives are entangled. We present a methodological practice for experimenting with diagrams and maps. Our emphasis on spatial rendering of local/global relationality is intended to invite discussion about the postcolonial context of international education work and the geopolitics of transnational curriculum. We pursue a diagrammatic and archipelagic form of creative abstraction, which we present as a posthuman cartographic practice. To illustrate this practice, we focus on a specific international curriculum development project funded by the World Universities Network.