Epilogue: Light Forever Shining Through Generations of Curriculum Scholars

Abstract

In this exhilarating volume, Janet L. Miller’s students illuminate ways in which Janet Miller’s five decades of curriculum theorizing and praxis have influenced their lives and inquiries. They illustrate how Janet Miller becomes the light shining through generations of curriculum scholars and the advancement of the field of curriculum studies as the field, at its best, becomes broad, diverse, contested, and yet, interconnected “curriculum communities without consensus” (Miller, 2010). Inspired by the life and work of Janet Miller, these courageous and invigorating multigenerational curriculum thinkers and cultural workers illuminate their power of refusing oppressive antiintellectual forces and invent innovative modes of expression and representation, which compel authors and readers to enact just and meaningful changes in schools, neighborhoods, communities, spaces, and places with shared purposes and efforts to make the impossible possible in an increasingly contested and vulnerable world.