Fostering Inviting, Critical, Reflective Spaces for the Development of Critical Communities of curriculum and pedagogy scholars
Fostering Inviting, Critical, Reflective Spaces for the Development of Critical Communities of curriculum and pedagogy scholars
We seek to create a space in which to advance the ideals of progressive curriculum and democratic leadership in curriculum and instruction through dialogue and action.
Oct. 1-3: Washington, DC
Oct. 9: Online
The Curriculum and Pedagogy (C&P) Organization warmly invites you to our annual conference, which will take place in person from October 1-3, 2026 in Washington, DC, and online on October 9, 2026. We gather across both modalities around the theme, Complicated Conversations on Hope and Renewal in Dehumanizing Times, to consider what it means to sustain humanizing educational work in an increasingly dehumanizing world. Across schools, universities, and communities, we are living amid intensifying conditions of surveillance, polarization, racial violence, anti-immigrant policy, war, ecological crisis, algorithmic harm, and democratic erosion. This year’s theme asks what it means to insist on human dignity despite these conditions. We will gather in Washington, DC, a site of profound contradiction, shaped by democracy and empire, governance and exclusion, public memory and strategic forgetting, political spectacle and everyday survival. As the seat of national power, it is a place where educational policy, migration policy, militarism, and democratic rhetoric converge. At the same time, it is a city with deep and enduring histories of diversity, community organizing, educational struggle, and resistance. This setting reminds us that our work as curriculum scholars, teachers, researchers, artists, and community practitioners must continue to take root in critical, participatory, and humanizing approaches. In the face of systems that normalize burnout, despair, and the fragmentation of collective life, this year’s theme also asks us to take seriously the question: What keeps us in the work?
We invite educators, scholars, students, activists, artists, and community practitioners from all levels and disciplines to join us in dialogue around the role of curriculum and pedagogy in social justice and collective flourishing. We welcome proposals that challenge dehumanizing paradigms and help us think more deeply about what it means to resist human disposability and imagine otherwise in this moment.
● Interdisciplinary education research and methodologies
● Classroom practices and pedagogies of refusal and resistance
● Curriculum theorizing for justice and equity
● Decolonial, abolitionist, and justice-oriented approaches to curriculum and pedagogy
● Feminist, queer, and intersectional perspectives
● Migration, borders, and transnational belonging
● Language, culture, and human dignity
● Community-based, youth, and participatory research
● Critical perspectives on digital media and technologies in education
● Arts-based methods, storytelling, and public pedagogies
● Restorative practices, justice, and well-being
The Curriculum and Pedagogy Group (C&P) invites nominations and self-nominations for lead editor(s) to serve a five-year term beginning January 2027 for its flagship, interdisciplinary Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy (JCP).
Scope of JCP: The flagship Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy is published four times a year in the academic calendar (March, June, September, December). JCP publishes groundbreaking interdisciplinary scholarship about curriculum theory, educational inquiry, and pedagogical praxis. It welcomes all scholarly methods and theoretical perspectives that examine, describe, analyze, and interpret the experiences of curriculum and pedagogy locally and internationally. JCP publishes research articles, art-based education, perspectives, and reviews of books. JCP publishes multilingual, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary scholarly works.
Lead Editor(s)
C&P invites nominations /self-nominations for one or more individuals to serve as JCP journal editor drawing on resources committed by their respective institution for a five-year term beginning January 2027.
Editor Qualifications and Requirements:
● a robust record of scholarship
● experience with editing practices
● established record of mentorship collaboration, and advocacy for and within C&P
● managerial skills to oversee the editorial cycle and meet deadlines; and
● the ability to attract respected experts to serve as reviewers.
Responsibilities include:
• Manage the review process of approximately 225 manuscripts per year
• Curate four issues a year, including an editorial note in each issue
• Solicit high-quality manuscripts from potential authors
• Assist authors moving their manuscripts to publication
• Organize and synthesize editorial suggestions from external reviewers
• Evaluate manuscripts using the journal scope and in collaboration/agreement with C&P’s mission and vision
• Coordinate with Art-based editor to review arts-based papers, and secure cover art for the issues
• Select a sufficient pool of reviewers to evaluate manuscripts in a timely fashion
• Oversee a Mentorship Program in collaboration with C&P governing council
• Work with Taylor & Francis Publishing Copyediting and Management Team
• Identify and appoint members to the JCP Editorial and Advisory Board
• Provide a clear vision for the direction of the journal
• Work closely with C&P Publications Committee and C&P governing council
• Participate in C&P governing council as non-voting members
• Commitment to attend C&P Annual Conference & Meetings and conduct at least one annual writing workshop
• Keep all records of the journal, including correspondence, license agreements, and subscription mailing list and funds
• Submit to C&P Governing Council an annual report and a closing one at the end of the tenure
Applicants must have clear institutional support for this editorial work for the duration of the five-year appointment, including release time as appropriate, funding for publication and professional staff, office space and in-kind support, as well as general office and clerical support. For applications with two or more individuals collaborating as co-Lead Editors from one institution, the proposal must clarify the roles and responsibilities for each person. Applicants must be available for the transition period in the fall of 2026.
Search procedure: The C&P Publications Committee and Ad-hoc Editorial search committee will receive nominations and review applications for the position of Lead Editor(s). These committees will submit a final recommendation to the C&P Governing Council, which will make the final decision.
The application packet for the Lead Editor(s) should include:
• A Vision Statement: Set forth goals and plans for the journal. This may include an assessment of the current strengths, weaknesses, or gaps and a plan for operationalizing your vision.
• Background Information: The name, affiliation, and other relevant information about the potential editor(s). Evidence of the ability and experience of the editor (s) to provide sound judgment and guidance to potential authors.
• Institutional Support: Map out the resources made available by the applicants’ institutions. Since support offered by institutions varies widely, applicants are encouraged to contact the Dean of their College or the Executive Office of their University as necessary in order to ensure the feasibility of the application. A Memorandum of Agreement between C&P and the editor’s institution will be required. Applicants should submit a budget, including secured institutional support. C&P does not pay for office space or release time but provides the financial support for Taylor &Francis publication. Taylor & Francis may offer some support for traveling to AERA & C&P for journal promotion.
Nominators should ascertain their nominee’s willingness to serve before submitting a
name; self-nominations are also welcome. Please submit your application packet, a cover letter of interest outlining qualifications, a CV, and contact information to: Freyca Calderon fxc85@psu.edu and Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto miryam.espinosadulanto@utrgv.edu
DEADLINE: July 1, 2026.
September 25-28, 2024 (In-Person)- November 15-16, 2024 (Virtual)
Moxy Atlanta Midtown/AC Hotel Atlanta Midtown [joint hotel]
