Excursions and Recursions Through Power Privilege and Practice

The Curriculum and Pedagogy book series is an enactment of the mission and values espoused by theCurriculum and Pedagogy Group an international educational organization serving those who share acommon faith in democracy and a commitment to public moral leadership in schools and society.Accordingly the mission of this series is to advance scholarship that engages critical dispositions towardscurriculum and instruction educational empowerment individual and collectivized agency and socialjustice. The purpose of the series is to create and nurture democratic spaces in education an aspect ofeducational thought that is frequently lacking in the extant literature often jettisoned via efforts to de-politicize the study of education. Rather thanignore these conversations this series offers the capacity for educational renewal and social change through scholarly research arts-based projectssocial action academic enrichment and community engagement. Authors will evidence their commitment to the principles of democracytransparency agency multicultural inclusion ethnic diversity gender and sexuality equity economic justice and international cooperation.Furthermore these authors will contribute to the development of deeper critical insights into the historical political aesthetic cultural andinstitutional subtexts and contexts of curriculum that impact educational practices. Believing that curriculum studies and the ethical conduct that iscongruent with such studies must become part of the fabric of public life and classroom practices this book series brings together prose poetry andvisual artistry from teachers professors graduate students early childhood leaders school administrators curriculum workers and planners museumand agency directors curators artists and various under-represented groups in projects that interrogate curriculum and pedagogical theories.