New Spatial Imaginaries for International Curriculum Projects: Creative Diagrams, Mapping Experiments, and Critical Cartography

Elizabeth de Freitas*, Nathalie Sinclair, Kate le Roux, Armando Solares, Alf T Coles, Oi-Lam Ng

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Abstract

This article explores the complex relational landscape of international partnerships where local and transnational education objectives are entangled. We present a methodological practice for experimenting with diagrams and maps. Our emphasis on spatial rendering of local/global relationality is intended to invite discussion about the postcolonial context of international education work and the geopolitics of transnational curriculum. We pursue a diagrammatic and archipelagic form of creative abstraction, which we present as a posthuman cartographic practice. To illustrate this practice, we focus on a specific international curriculum development project funded by the World Universities Network.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)507-521
Number of pages15
JournalQualitative Inquiry
Volume28
Issue number5
Early online date30 Dec 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jun 2022

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Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This project is funded by the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN). The title of the grant is “Innovating the mathematics curriculum in times of change: towards local and global relevance”.

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