CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE JOURNAL ESPAÇO DO CURRÍCULO – THEMATIC ISSUE V. 17, N. 2 OF 2024

The Journal Espaço do Currículo announces that submissions for publication are open from May 1st, 2024, to May 30th, 2024, for a Thematic Issue titled - Curriculum, time, and social networks: places of affection and acceleration. This issue will be organized by Professors Graça Reis, Ph.D. (PPGE/UFRJ), Soymara Emilião (CAP/UERJ – UFRJ), and Professor Allan Rodrigues, Ph.D. (PPGE/UNESA – UFRJ).

SYNOPSIS

This thematic issue aims to discuss paths and modes produced within the gaps and fissures of curricula circulating in schools, in the face of the acceleration of the world, the fragmentation of attention, and the interests that are becoming accustomed to the rhythms of social networks. What are the escapes from curricular creations made by practitioners (Certeau, 1994) in schools, in this time that seems increasingly short or solely based on likes? To think of the curriculum from another temporality means to disconfigure a formation that has long been considered ideal, namely, a Eurocentric model of thinking-doing-knowing education as a space of temporality. Within the realm of temporality/modernity, there is a conception of progress where the school and the curriculum are aligned with the idea of progress/development. This perspective of education for temporal progress is embedded in neoliberal and conservative policies that dictate what schools should be rather than how they happen. Thus, we ask ourselves: What is the time of the school? What is the time to think of other curricula? Is it possible to think of a curriculum as more about involvement than development (Bispo dos Santos, 2023)? In this sense, how are we understanding the use/consumption of social networks in the field of education? This thematic issue aims to think about everyday school life that invents forms of resistance and transgression to the structures of a "chronos" temporality. Our central objective is to bring texts that reassess the predominant norms in curriculum studies regarding time and the uses of social networks. How are curricula being created in the discussion of time and topics such as gender, racism, ableism, and many others that think of humanizing and experiential relationships? Is it possible to think of another relationship between social networks, schools, time, and curricula? How can we experience schools as spacetime for learning in the face of the entry of social networks, which are part of everyone's contemporary life? Can social networks be a place of dissemination of other times and affections? If we walk in constellations, as Ailton Krenak reminds us (2020), what is our time? What is the time of the educational act? What is the time of curricular creation?

To this end, we prioritize methodological approaches that seek to break with the Eurocentric paradigm of time and the uses of social networks as a space for accelerating life, using qualitative methodologies based on the multiple epistemologies produced by the global South. Thus, this thematic issue starts from the understanding that we need to rethink the epistemological ways of "looking at curricula" in a complex manner and in another temporality of presences and affections. In curricula, many knowledges intertwine and nourish bodies, lives, ways of seeing, understanding, reading, and thinking, beyond the politics of silencing, normalization, progress, and accelerated temporality. Thus, we invite everyone to sing-write texts that allow us to think of another time, other relationships with social networks, as Caetano Veloso sings:

Still, I believe, it's possible for us to come together

Time, time, time, time

On another level of bond

Time, time, time, time."

We hope that this thematic issue will put into conversation different creations woven from worldviews, other ways of narrating life and research in education, envisioning composing a constellation of articles that point towards other possibilities, referenced by other times, social networks, and everyday life.

Please refer to the Author Guidelines to prepare your work according to the publication standards available on the Periodicals Portal of the Federal University of Paraíba, accessing the journal on the website https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/rec.

Submissions should be made through the aforementioned Periodicals Portal, accessing the Journal https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/rec. To do this, register as an Author to submit your work.

For any questions, please contact us via email: rec@ce.ufpb.br.