American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies

Welcome to the website for the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (AAACS). We are glad you are interested in joining our conversation and hope that you choose become a member. This website serves as the central source for information about our association, annual conference, and journal. This site will continue to grow and adapt to our needs as we work together, engaging in complicated conversations about the field of curriculum studies and the contexts, local and global, that inform our field.


Links in the menu bar at the top of the screen will take you to the static pages about the AAACS, our annual conference, our committee, our journal, our projects, and curriculum-related links. Once familiar with our site, please feel free to check the updates frequently for upcoming dates and possibilities.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO ,SAN ANTONIO, TX.

Conference site, 2017

St. john's university, New YORK CITY, NY.

CONFERENCE SITE, 2018

IMPORTANT Updates:


  • AAACS Conference (2018)will be in New York City. Please check CONFERENCES tab. Thank you very much for all of your important and inspiring work in the field!


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  • Please see the Journal Tab for more details on the new issue of Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS). 


2018 AAACS Annual Conference
will be in New York City, USA.

                    


From ‘Hood’ to ‘High Line’:

Of Poetry, Protest, and the People

in Curriculum Studies


Wednesday, April 11-Friday, April 13


… the academy is a speed dating service
where there is no romance, no seduction,
just reduction and a stupefying trance

we need textual intercourse full of pleasure,
instead of this coitus interruptus that leaves us
desiccated, depleted, dry like a dean’s dirge
about branding, and random, never randy,
encounters with potential wealthy benefactors

we need to claim more, declaim more
exclaim more, proclaim more
we need to reclaim
                           the bold voices of poetry

our poetry needs to startle
our poetry needs to howl

…. who wants cosmetic curriculum
when the cosmos calls, a cacophony

chaos is not wild & random, instead
inimitably orderly & complex

cosmos & chaos dance
an Argentinian tango 

moment by moment in the momentous
composing of living wholeness

like a poem is never closed & controlled
curriculum is emergent & startling

we are not sentenced to linear expression
sitting meekly at desks in tight uniforms

curriculum attends to the spaces between
letters & words & lines where poetry grows

with spell-binding delight in wild possibilities
leaning into love with tantalizing hope for the other
                                                                   

Selections from Carl Leggo