Thematic Edition ABdC 2026 "Curriculum and discourse: reimagining the past, reinscribing the future"

2025-11-17

Revista e-Curriculum (ISSN: 1809-3876 – Qualis A2), the quarterly electronic publication of
the Brazilian Curriculum Association (ABdC), which is made freely available and run by the
Graduate Program in Education: Curriculum, of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo
(PUC-SP), announces this Call for Papers to researchers from the academic community to
submit scientific articles for the 2026 Thematic Edition of the Brazilian Curriculum
Association (ABdC) entitled “Curriculum and discourse: reimagining the past,
reinscribing the future”, to be published in edition v. 24 (2026): continuous flow.
Submission dates: 01 December 2025 to 15 February 2026.
Languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish.
Organizers:
 Prof. Dr. Marcia Serra Ferreira (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Rio de
Janeiro, RJ, Brazil)
 Prof. Dr. André Vitor Fernandes dos Santos (University of Brasilia, Brasilia, DF,
Brazil)
 Prof. Dr. Thomas Popkewitz (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Reason for this Edition
Since the 1990s, the field of the Curriculum has been “infected” by post-critical theorizations,
reconfiguring the relationships between language and culture. During this shift, important
notions to the field (such as knowledge and power) have taken on new contours, perceived
within systems of reason that play a role in the constitution of the subjects of education. From
this perspective, it is educational discourses that consequently produce who we are and what we
can say and think about the curricula of basic education and teacher training. We do this from
the present, in a movement that articulates past experiences and projections of the future. This
means questioning the linearity of events, reorganizing how we have thought about the

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relationship between past, present, and future in research in the field. In this edition, we wish to
bring together texts that focus on three thematic areas: (1) investigations from a historical
perspective that problematize current school and academic curricula by questioning causal
relationships and a linear, continuous chronology; (2) studies on policies that perceive curricula
as apparatuses that organize past experiences in an attempt to control our fears and the
unpredictability of the future; and (3) research interested in how the subjects of education are
constituted in relation to curricula, producing expectations of the future that include and, at the
same time, exclude possibilities of being and existing in the world. Around these three thematic
focuses, articles with research results and theoretical essays will be welcomed that, by
challenging the relationship between curriculum and discourse, can, in contemporary times,
contribute to reimagining the past and reinscribing the future.
Important Information
The edition will be bilingual (Portuguese or Spanish plus English). Articles should be submitted
in Portuguese, Spanish and English and must comply with the use of the cultural norms of each
language and the guidelines of the journal, available under Instructions for Authors.
Between 12 (twelve) and 18 (eighteen) articles will be selected, ensuring international,
institutional, regional and thematic diversity. Approved texts must include a version in a
second language, as indicated by the Editorial Board.
In accordance with the partnership terms between ABdC and its partner journals, we highlight
that:
a) Authors may submit a single article, written individually or in collaboration, for a single
thematic edition of ABdC/2026, for publication in partner journals;
b) If the article is accepted, to be published, all of the author must be members of the AbdC
with their membership fees paid in full (https://abdcurriculo.com.br/);
c) ABdC's guidelines do not supersede those of the journals, including with regard to the
minimum time interval that must be observed for publishing in the same academic
journal. Therefore, check the guidelines of the journal to which this dossier is related.
Works should be submitted on the submissions platform of the e-Curriculum journal:
http://revistas.pucsp.br/curriculum/about/submissions#authorGuidelines, in the section headed
ABdC 2026 Thematic Edition “Curriculum and Discourse: reimagining the past,
reinscribing the future”, from 01 December 2025 to 15 February 2026.