Curriculum of Global Migration and Transnationalism

Elena Toukan is a PhD candidate in Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at OISE/University of Toronto. Her research examines the interplay between global education policy and local agency. Elena served as an associate editor at Curriculum Inquiry, and her published research appears such journals as Education, Citizenship & Social Justice, The Journal of Peace Education, Education as Change, and Compare. Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández is a Professor in the Department of Curriculum Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Canada and the Editor in Chief of Curriculum Inquiry. Sardar Anwaruddin received his PhD from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Introduction: Shifting borders and sinking ships: What (and who) is transnationalism “good” for?
1. Refugee education: Education for an unknowable future
2. Critical transnational curriculum for immigrant and refugee students
3. Immigration and emigration: Canadian and Mexican youth making sense of a globalized conflict
4. Theorizing the spatial dimensions and pedagogical implications of transnationalism
5. The ink of citizenship
6. Toward an awareness of the “colonial present” in education: Focusing on interdependence and inequity in the context of global migration
7. Revisioning curriculum in the age of transnational mobility: Towards a transnational and transcultural framework
8. “We are here because you were there”: On curriculum, empire, and global migration
9. Arab Spring, Favelas, borders, and the artistic transnational migration: toward a curriculum for a Global Hip-Hop Nation
10. Emotions in the curriculum of migrant and refugee students
11. Global mobilities and the possibilities of a cosmopolitan curriculum
Afterword: provisional pedagogies toward imagining global mobilities otherwise