ABSTRACT
The author discusses what might make it possible to ask the question of hospitality within the post-reconceptualization of curriculum studies. She asks whether our scholarship and institutions respond to the call for hospitality and how a concept such as hospitality might help curriculum scholars rethink, expand, and deepen their work. Pulling from biblical themes, the author asks if at this historical junction there is room for curriculum studies within institutions and within curriculum studies for the other who might make an unexpected visit. Next, she turns to Derrida to ask if we are prepared to receive the other and, more specifically, to risk ourselves before the other and in so doing perhaps to face the stranger in ourselves or be born anew. Here we must be prepared to be haunted by an other than ruptures and proceeds welcoming. Lastly, the author points out, that if we as a field are radically open to an-other, that which becomes possible might be places of pleasure, laughter as critique, and learning from the stranger. This is good enough education learned by living with others as best we can and learning to embrace anew what we have loved to love again within the present moment.
