American Educational Research Association SIG on Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) is the premier professional association for academics in the field of education in the United States. Within this organization a structure exists that enables a variety of ways to engage in the association. For example, special interest groups (SIGs) in AERA are spaces for unique and specific windows into contemporary scholarship and move within the larger fields of education addressed by the major divisions in the organization. It takes a group of dedicated AERA members to develop a proposal and circulate a petition among like-minded members to gain permission to create a SIG. The Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies SIG is one such historic window of contemporary scholarship. It was developed to provide a more flexible space ...