October 3, 2023
BATON ROUGE, LA - The LSU Curriculum Theory Project is a community of internationally recognized scholars and intellectually vibrant students from a diversity of backgrounds whose primary goals are to research the role education plays in a democratic society and participate in the future of curriculum theory nationally and internationally. Curriculum Theory, as the interdisciplinary study of educational experience, aspires to understand educational practices within broad social and cultural frameworks, focusing on what counts as knowledge, and what knowledge is most valued, by whom, at what time, and for what purpose. Engaging experience, analysis and imagination, this field of scholarly inquiry seeks to articulate the significance of curriculum as lived and explore at the nexus of subject matter, society and self its generative possibilities. Check out the CTP Fall 2023 Schedule of Events below!
October
10/16/2023
Lunch & Learn: Book Talk
Dr. Petra Hendry
Professor Emerita, Louisiana State University
"Reimagining the Educated Citizen: Creole Pedagogies in the Transatlantic World, 1685-1896"
12 PM - 1 PM
225 Peabody Hall
Lunch Provided
10/16/2023
CTP/CS/UCE Open House & Advising
3 PM - 5 PM
121 Peabody Hall
November
11/01/2023
CTP Film Series: "My Louisiana Love"
Documentary featuring and co-produced by Monique Verdin, Artist, Activist, Citizen
of the Houma Nation
6 PM - 7:30 PM
225 Peabody Hall
11/09/2023-11/14/2023
CTP Visiting Scholar
Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, Professor & Vice-Dean of Graduate Programs, University of
Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
11/10/2023
Voices of Louisiana Indigenous Cultures
Day of Dialogue: Healing & Reconciliation
“Histories of Indigenous Education in Louisiana: Past, Present, Futures”
8 AM - 4:30 PM
Huey P. Long Building
Free day conference, meals and snacks provided
11/13/2023
Conversations with Graduate Students
Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, Professor & Vice-Dean of Graduate Programs, University of
Ottawa, CTP Visiting Scholar
102 Peabody Hall
11/13/2023
CTP Visiting Scholar Lecture
Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, Professor & Vice-Dean of Graduate Programs, University of
Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
120 Peabody Hall
December
12/1/2023
CTP End of Term Celebration
TBA
12/2/2023
CTP Out & About Day Trip
The Chitimacha Museum
Chitimacha is the only federally recognized tribe in Louisiana to still occupy part
of its ancestral territory.
(Lunch, Pat’s Fisherman’s Wharf Restaurant or Chicken on the Bayou and Boudin Shop)
Charenton, LA
9 AM - 3 PM
For more information on CTP Fall 2023 events, contact Petra Munro Hendry, PhD.
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