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authors: Ydo, Yao
title: Responding to crisis and building forward better: The relevance of curriculum
date: 2021-09-24
journal: Prospects (Paris)
DOI: 10.1007/s11125-021-09572-8
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doc_id: 997881
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Y. Ydo and response, through probing analyses of research, policy, and practice, as well as through using the concept of curriculum as "a bridge between the social and subjective in a relationship between public and private" (Pacheco 2009, p. 49) . Thus, curriculum is "a conversation, better said, a complicated conversation that transforms the personal into curriculum subject" (p. 50).

Professor Pinar uses the full weight of his extensive knowledge in education research, teaching, policy, and action to argue that the Covid-19 crisis is a curriculum crisis, because it is a humanitarian crisis: "Survival-physical, psychological, educational-is at stake". In order to reconstruct quality education, we must begin by improving its foundation, whereby "the student-the individual person-should remain central to any conception of curriculum, to any organization of pedagogical communication, indeed to the very project of education itself" (Pinar, in this volume). The result is a seasoned and superbly articulated examination of the principles and practices of curriculum and its teaching and learning during crisis, while casting an ever-vigilant eye on a fundamental question in the post-Covid-19 era: "What knowledge is of most worth when constructing a new social and global awareness through curriculum?" (Sümer Aktan, in this volume).

Innovative, cultured, and consistently captivating, this special issue is bold and, in the field of comparative and international education, unprecedented.

Resetting the way we teach science is vital for all our futures

Whole, bright, deep with understanding: Life story and politics of curriculum studies