A CURRICULUM, HOSPITALITY IN DELIRIOUS NETWORKS

ethical, aesthetic, and poetic escapes

Abstract

This article proposes a theoretical-poetic reflection on an alternative curriculum, situated at the intersection of Derridian hospitality and notions of networked curricula, inspired by Alves (2003), Ferraço (2016), and others. Starting from the idea that the mainstream conception of curriculum—such as a grid and/or curricular (re)arrangements—does not account for the complexity of school encounters, we therefore conceive of the curriculum as delirious networks, a space-time of ethical, aesthetic, and poetic escapes. As lines of escape, hospitality, in its unconditional radicalism, calls us to welcome the other who arrives nameless, disrupting certainties and reinventing knowledge with each encounter; these movements of curricular networks lead us to believe that the curriculum is not reduced to prescriptive documents, but is woven into the everyday, in conversations, in glances, in silences—all potent threads in the possible weaves that host those who arrive at school. Delirium, understood as the power of invention, emerges as a line of flight from the bonds of the prescriptive curriculum, launching us into other, plural, and unpredictable curricula. We advocate for a hospitable curriculum within delirious networks, one that welcomes differences as mystery, invents new words, and is constantly being formed amidst the interplay of lines that move through school territories. We are deeply committed to approaching education with love and hospitality, swimming against restrictive currents, (re)creating and (en)chanting through the movements of school curricula and hospitality initiatives.