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Abstract
Abstract This study draws on ethnographic research from three co-ethnic community-based, arts programs serving immigrant youth to examine the ways in which immigrant educators serve as “curriculum texts” for youth. It illustrates the curricular nature of the experiences, being and interactions of immigrant educators who share with youth the same racialized ethnic backgrounds, languages, and cultural heritage. It significantly contributes to the re-imagining of the possibilities for education across formal and non-formal settings, and the re-valuing of the work of co-ethnic community-based organizations and their immigrant staff. Against the backdrop of a paucity of teachers of color, exploring the curricular contributions of minoritized educators in out-of-school contexts is critical for understanding significance of minoritized educators for advancing culturally relevant pedagogy.
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The Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy is dedicated to the study of curriculum theory, educational inquiry, and pedagogical praxis. This leading international journal brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore and critically examine diverse perspective on educational phenomena, from schools and cultural institutions to sites and concerns beyond institutional boundaries. The journal publishes articles that explore historical, philosophical, gendered, queer, racial, ethnic, indigenous, postcolonial, linguistic, autobiographical, aesthetic, theological, and/or international curriculum concerns and issues. The Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy aims to promote emergent scholarship that critiques and extends curriculum questions and education foundations that have relation to practice by embracing a plurality of critical, decolonizing education sciences that inform local struggles in universities, schools, classroom, and communities. This journal provides a platform for critical scholarship that will counter-narrate Eurocratic, whitened, instrumentalized, mainstream education. Submissions should be no more than 9,000 words (excluding references) and should be submitted in APA 6th edition format.