International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies

The International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (IAACS) was established in 2001 to support a worldwide, but not uniform, field of curriculum studies. IAACS recognizes that curriculum occurs within national borders and that often curriculum inquiry is constrained by government, culture, and tradition. However, IAACS recognizes that those borders have become very permeable and that the advancement of the field of curriculum studies acknowledges the importance to the field of opening conversations through and across those borders. The mission of the organization is to promote scholarly conversations concerning the content, context, and process of education in specific localities.

The association began as a Committee of 100 and developed from the Committee of 100 that arose out of the 2000 Louisiana State University Conference on ...

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