Itinerant Curriculum Theory: Challenging the Monumentalism of the Cartesian Epistemicidal Reason

Itinerant Curriculum Theory: Challenging the Monumentalism of the Cartesian Epistemicidal Reason

Modern Western Eurocentric reason, science, and theory have proven to be insufficient to solve humanity’s great challenges. The article examines the underlying reasons for this failure and denounces ‘eugenics’ as the original sin of the Cartesian matrix; it also highlights how particular counter-hegemonic epistemological Eurocentric veins in the field lost focus on the crucial battles and challenges facing humanity. While doing so, the paper argues how Eurocentrism is a divisive epistemological matrix that has obliterated historically other epistemological forms. The article examines how the Eurocentric epistemological matrix is the eugenic riverbed for the monumentality of a racialized reason, science, and theory. The paper explores the role of the curriculum field in producing, perpetuating, and legitimating such eugenic reason; in so doing, the paper denounces the curriculum field as epistemicidal and advances the itinerant curriculum theory (ICT) as a non-derivative path to challenge the monumentality of a racialized Euricentric reason.