Estellés, MartaSpector, Hannah2025-05-292025-05-292024Estellés, M., & Spector, H. (2024, April 8-10). The Safetyfication of Curriculum as an Example of Bureaucratic Governance [Conference item]. American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies –2024 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, US.https://hdl.handle.net/10289/17398This presentation takes up what Author 1 terms the “safetyfication” of education. Safetyfication refers to the process through which the notion of ‘safety’ has acquired an omnipresent status in education in the Anglophone world as a result of an amalgam of claims that range from disciplinary calls to social justice demands. In this paper-presentation, the authors will analyze attempts to make the curriculum safer – or free from sociopolitical risk – under Author 2’s political analysis of bureaucracy as a form of governance (2018; 2023). The main argument made is that this form of governance operates inadvertently, through the safetyfication of education.enThis is a PowerPoint presentation presented at the 2024 Annual Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies. © 2024 AAACS.Conference Contribution