The generation of the utopia: Itinerant curriculum theory towards a 'futurable future'. Issue 3 (4th May 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Paraskeva, João M.
• Is Part Of: Discourse. Volume 43:Issue 3(2022)
• Page Start: 347
• Page End: 366
• Publication Date: 2022-05-04
• Subjects: Itinerant curriculum theory -- critical theory -- curriculum involution -- coloniality -- de-linking -- decolonial -- generation of utopia; Education -- Periodicals; Education -- Australia -- Periodicals; 370.5
• DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2022.2030594
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0159-6306

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Drawing on Pepetela's novel The Generation of Utopia, the article situates and dissects the role of a group of intellectuals within a radical critical curriculum river, working towards a more just society and education, and enhancing a utopian generation. The article emphasizes the erroneous persistence of intellectuals associated with such generation in working fundamentally within a Modern Western Eurocentric platform; it underlines how the battles between dominant and counter-dominant traditions could not avoid the epistemicidal nature of the curriculum and drove the field into a theoretical involution, a regression. The paper argues for the need to decolonize Modern Western Eurocentric counter-dominant approaches; and advances the itinerant curriculum theory, as a just approach to champion the struggle against the curriculum epistemicide – a decolonial turn. The article ends calling for 'the death' of traditional ways to produce critical theory – Eurocentric fully saturated – as a way to de-link the critical theoretical out of the coloniality matrix, and in so doing, honoring the rich legacy of the generation of utopia.