International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies

IAACS World Curriculum Studies Conference

IAACS is established to support a worldwide - but not uniform - field of curriculum studies. At this historical moment and for the foreseeable future, curriculum inquiry occurs within national borders, often informed by governmental policies and priorities, responsive to national situations. Curriculum study is, therefore, nationally distinctive. The founders of the IAACS do not dream of a worldwide field of curriculum studies mirroring the standardization and uniformity the larger phenomenon of globalization threatens. Nor are they unaware of the dangers of narrow nationalisms. Their hope, in establishing this organization, is to provide support for scholarly conversations within and across national and regional borders about the content, context, and process of education, the organizational and intellectual center of which is the curriculum.

For further information, write to: Professor William Fraser (william.fraser@up.ac.za), Professor Lesley Le Grange (llg@sun.ac.za), or Ms Sally Le Roux (mlr1@sun.ac.za).