Provincializing Curriculum? On the Preparation of Subjectivity for Globality

Abstract

An essay review of

“On the Origins of the Educational Terms Class and Curriculum”

(Hamilton, D. In B. Baker, Ed., New Curriculum History,pp. 3–20. Rotterdam, the Netherlands: Sense, 1989/2009)

and

Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation

(Winichakul, T. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994)

Notes

Notes

1 This effort involves, no doubt, a reliance on a spatializing language which ultimately operates as vehicle and effect of the very conditions being analyzed and outside of which this paper does not claim to fall.

2 In regard to Lutheranism, this is evidenced by Luther’s penning of Small Catechisms in an effort to standardize Biblical interpretation after his dismay at journeying through different regions of German-language Europe. See further Baker (2001). The differences between Calvinist and Lutheran heritages might be seen in vestigial form today in the educational systems of countries in Europe such as Scotland and Finland, respectively.

3 I have elaborated the beginnings of this disjunction between subject and World in medieval Christian poetics in its relation to a reworked discourse of nature and genius. See Baker (2005).