Curriculum, Empiricisms, and Post-truth Politics

IN SEPTEMBER OF 2016, two months before the election of Donald Trump, Colin Kaepernick, the former professional football player, kneeled during the playing of the U.S. national anthem before a game to protest ongoing police violence against Black people. Colin Kaepernick's experience and percep...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inJournal of curriculum theorizing Vol. 34; no. 3; pp. 41 - 54
Main Authors Gleason, Tristan, Franklin-Phipps, Asilia
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Rochester Foundation for Curriculum Theory 01.09.2019
Subjects
Civil Disobedience
Colonialism
Core curriculum
Curriculum Research
Definitions
Education
Educational Practices
Educational theory
Empiricism
Epistemology
Ideology
Kaepernick, Colin
Murders & murder attempts
Nationalism
Police
Politics
Professional football
Qualitative research
Racial Differences
Scholars
School Safety
Schools
Teachers
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:IN SEPTEMBER OF 2016, two months before the election of Donald Trump, Colin Kaepernick, the former professional football player, kneeled during the playing of the U.S. national anthem before a game to protest ongoing police violence against Black people. Colin Kaepernick's experience and perception of reality, and the event of his protest, are experienced and known in vastly different ways depending on how those truths enter into the realm of knowledge. Because societal norms discourage a discourse that tolerates the killing of innocent lives, the normalization of this violence must operate on different grounds of truth. [...]we align ourselves with scholars like Frantz Fanon (1952/2008) who help us recognize that schools are not the only forces that shape our identities and ways of relating to the world; cultural texts from comic books to popular news articles are also agential in generating the narratives that produce particular social arrangements and hierarchies. Interestingly, as we continued noting the different ways that gaslighting was being mobilized in the press, we recognized that the term was used across political ideologies: in one striking instance, a lobbyist for the NRA suggested that the anti-gun rhetoric emerging in the wake of recent school shootings was also an effort to gaslight the American public (Barr, 2018). [...]while it is tempting to dismiss this as another example of the political right's ability to assimilate and leverage language from the left in the production of their own political discourse, we argue that the commonplace use of the term gaslighting also surfaces concerns with the ways that lived experience is simultaneously vulnerable to authority and unproblematically upheld as authoritative in this present moment of post-truth politics.
ISSN:1942-2563