Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference

The Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference is a small North American conference with the stated goal of bringing together curriculum theory with curriculum practice, academic discourse with the discourse of K–12 school practitioners, and teacher educators with teachers, school administrators, and graduate students and doing so through larger themes of the arts, social justice, and public moral leadership. In addition to these goals for the content of the conference, organizers also sought to ensure that the process of running the conference reflected democratic values through elections, transparency of finances, and procedures. It was organized by a small group of curriculum scholars including James Sears, Dan Marshall, Jim Henderson, Kathleen Kesson, Patrick Slattery, Kris Sloan, Louise Allen, Tom Kelly, and Susan Edgerton, as an outgrowth of the ...