C&I faculty and graduate students are a big success at the 2013 Bergamo Conference

Three Curriculum and Instruction graduate students, Justin Grinage (Culture and Teaching Track), Christopher Kolb (Literacy Education Track), and Sadaf Rauf (Second Languages and Cultures Track), along with C&I department chair, Nina Asher, gave two presentations at the 2013 Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, held at the Bergamo Conference Center in Dayton, OH.

  • Asher and Kolb presented a co-authored paper titled, “Toward Educational Re-vision in a Time of Globalization and Standardization: Looking Deeply as a Means of Breaking the Confines of Capitalism.”
  • Grinage, Kolb and Rauf each presented a paper in a panel discussion called, “Race, Language, Nation, and Curriculum in a Global Context,” while Asher served as session chair. These presentations emerged out of the work the students did in Asher’s graduate seminar, Postcolonialism, Globalization, and Education last Spring and were very well received.

GinageJustin Grinage (pictured) was selected as the winner of the 2013 Bergamo Graduate Student Paper Award. His paper, “Reterritorializing Locations of Home,” will be published in the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. This was Justin’s first presentation at a national conference.
For more information about Asher’s research, please see her faculty profile. If you would like to know more about the Ph.D. program tracks mentioned, please visit our Future Student – Ph.D. webpages.