Call for papers: Thematic Issue (v. 18, n. 2)

The Journal Espaço do Currículo (REC) invites researchers to submit papers for the thematic issue “Foucault, Deleuze and Derrida: Curriculumists? How we think, problematize and create curricula with post-structuralist methodological and conceptual tools (or the philosophy of difference)”, organized by Maria Carolina da Silva Caldeira (UFMG) and Danilo Araujo de Oliveira (UFMA).

Summary:

In 2003, Tomaz Tadeu da Silva and Sandra Corazza wrote the text "Dr. Nietzsche, Curriculum Theorist – With a Little Help from Professor Deleuze." Based on this proposition, the authors sought to provoke the curriculum field by demonstrating how ideas developed by Nietzsche (and explored by different philosophers of difference, such as Foucault, Deleuze, and Derrida) could mobilize thought to analyze and produce curricula shaped and traversed by the play of differences, the problematization of fixed truths, and perspectivism.

More than twenty years after the publication of this text, it is evident how the curriculum field has appropriated theoretical contributions inspired by the philosophical movements developed by Nietzsche, such as relations of force and power, the processes of individual production, the perspectivist view of truth, the rupture with identity-based thought, and the critique of the subject as coherent and transcendental. In this sense, readings of authors such as Foucault, Deleuze, and Derrida, alongside Nietzsche, have brought about significant changes in the field, introducing new themes and new ways of looking at longstanding issues in curriculum research.

Thus, this thematic section aims to gather research findings, theoretical essays, and articles that illustrate how different concepts from these authors have been incorporated into curriculum research. This proposal is justified by the significant shift these thinkers have enabled in the curriculum field. Therefore, this section seeks to highlight and systematize these various contributions, making it possible to map recent curricular production inspired by these authors while also presenting new possibilities for thinking about processes of subjectivation, the aesthetics of existence, lines of flight, and possible practices of hospitality within curricula.

Submission deadline: 15/05 to 15/06/2025

See the Instructions to Authors to adapt your work to the publication rules available on the Federal University of Paraíba's Periodicals Portal, by accessing the journal at https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/rec.

Submissions must be made through the Portal de Periódicos by accessing the journal https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/rec. To do this, register as an Author to submit your work.

If you have any questions, please contact us by e-mail: rec@ce.ufpb.br.

We look forward to your contribution to enriching this debate!

Sincerely,

Editorial Board