ABSTRACT
My response to the paper by Professor Dimitriadis consists mainly of an endorsement, and an attempt at extension, of the ideas of its author, and the two scholarly giants whose work he explores. I resonate strongly with the hopes of Dimitriadis for reclaiming and enhancing, “in new and progressive ways,” our space as curriculum scholars in our “hyperprofessionalized milieu.” Indeed, since the 1990s, I have struggled with issues related to the manner in which we professors of curriculum might reinvent ourselves as public-minded scholars who aim to transform that milieu and thereby rescue from an ever-increasing marginalization a field that rightfully lies at the heart of education.
