Curriculum, Spirituality, and Human Rights towards a Just Public Education examines the integration of spiritualitynot religioninto U.S. public education and curriculum. The volume challenges celebratory curricularized forms of human rights and frames spirituality as a counter-hegemonic human right. Drawing on autobiography as inquiry, Rogério Venturini unpacks his spiritual strugglesfrom withinand experiences as a progressive spiritual person and educator. The volume examines the subjectivity and objectivity of spirituality, exploring the lethal social impact triggered by the absence of spirituality at the table of the so-called curriculum conversations.
This volume places the struggle for spirituality in our field as a political struggle and challenges the epistimicidal nature of such conversations. Venturini draws on critical, anti-colonial, and decolonial frameworks and argues for an epistemological move towards an itinerant curriculum theory, one that responds to the worlds endless epistemological diversity and difference by assuming a non-derivative non-abyssal approach.
Foreword: Should There Be a Place for the Spirit in Public Education?
Todd Price
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: On Curriculum and Spirituality: Itinerant Curriculum Theory and
the Struggle for Non-Derivative Curriculum Langue and Parole
João M. Paraskeva
1 The Inevitable Unfinished Transcendent
2 Towards a Plus Que Parfait Imparfait Theory
3 Conscientização and Consciencism: A Spiritual Call
4 Critical Prophetic Pragmatism
5 Confronting the Chamber of Horrors
6 The Monumentality of a Prosperous Divisive Curriculum Reason
7 Itinerant Curriculum Theory: Towards a Non-Derivative Curriculum Langue
and Parole
1 The Truth about My Schooling: A Struggle to Fly Inside a Bottle
1 Let Me Begin from the Beginning, as in the Beginning Was the Word
2 A Subtractive Culture of Learning
3 Contradictory Education
2 Identity Matters: On (Whose) Spirituality!
1 Introduction
2 Defining Spirituality: A Possible Impossibility?
3 CoherenceReallyMatters: Morality and Honesty
4 Within and beyond Life as Is
5 The Ordinary: A Global Context
6 Consciencism and Conscientizaca o: A Spiritual Call
7 Whose Identity!
3 A Conservative Neoliberalism or Neoliberal Conservatism?
1 Introduction
2 The Absence of Authentic Leadership: Framing Dropouts
3 On Neoliberalism
4 Everything But Spirituality and the Humanities
5 Reflection on Whose Knowledge!
4 Coloniality and the Pedagogies of Neoliberalism
1 On Coloniality
2 A Sociology of Absences
3 The Decolonial Turn: Towards an Itinerant Curriculum Theory
5 A Conclusion: Spirituality as a Counter-Hegemonic Human Right
References
Rogério C. Venturini is a critical pedagogue, social activist, and spiritual servant leader, teaching and working closely with oppressed communities in South Coast, Massachusetts. He has a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies.
