Reframing the curricular challenge educators face after a decade of war, the contributors to this remarkable collection testify to the ethical demands of our time, our place, and our profession. What does it mean for us to teach now, in a time laced by hate, suffering, and trauma but professionally determined to find a very different future? Each of these essays provides provocative paths, theoretical and practical, to that future. In this resounding collection we hear once again the sound of silence breaking, supporting us to rearticulate our pedagogical convictions in this time of terrorism, reframing curriculum as committed to intercultural understanding and global justice.

William F. Pinar, University of British Columbia

Famously, Greek dramatist Aeschylus remarked that “in war, the first casualty is truth.” In this fine, original and timely collection, Rahat Naqvi and Hans Smits have provided a valuable forum in which curriculum scholars can ‘speak truth to power’ in the post-911 era and explore ways to understand and challenge how curriculum is enframed and enacted in contemporary classrooms.

George Richardson, University of Alberta