Currere and Praxis

Editorial № 01

Editorial

Teresa Strong-Wilson

This special issue of Currere and Praxis coincides with the 2026 re-publication of William F. Pinar and Madeleine Grumet’s (2026b) Toward a Poor Curriculum (hereafter:…

p. 148-159

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Special Issue: 50th Anniversary of Currere № 02

Beyond skills, screens, and test scores: William Pinar and the preservation of the human subject in curriculum studies

Joyce Ann Chastine

This paper examines the scholarship of William F. Pinar, arguing that an ethical refusal to reduce people to instruments, data, or outcomes unifies his work across five…

#curriculum theory #currere #reconceptualization #technoligization

p. 163-175

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Editorial № 03

Pinar’s addendum

William F. Pinar

I wanted to thank Teresa Strong-Wilson for editing this special issue of Currere and Praxis in honor of the publication of the 50^th year anniversary edition of Toward a…

p. 160-162

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Special Issue: 50th Anniversary of Currere № 04

Currere of a reader

Teresa Strong-Wilson

In an inquiry tied to reading, readers and books, I use currere to seek out (for the purpose of better discerning) the subjective formation of a reader, in this case…

#Currere #readers #reading #books

p. 176-191

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Special Issue: 50th Anniversary of Currere № 05

Invoking educational subjectivity within Türkiye’s centralized system: A currere perspective

Ünal Deniz

As Toward a Poor Curriculum marks its 50th anniversary, this conceptual analysis examines the relevance of Pinar and Grumet’s (1976/2026) autobiographical method for…

#Currere #praxis #presence #subjectivity

p. 192-212

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Special Issue: 50th Anniversary of Currere № 06

Currere and (Il)legibility: Refusing the synthetic moment

Adrian M. Downey

In this essay, I attempt to palpate both the possibilities and limits of currere as a method of autobiographical writing and curriculum theorizing. I am specifically…

#Currere #refusal #curriculum studies #legibility

p. 213-231

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Special Issue: 50th Anniversary of Currere № 07

Intercultural currere in Asian contexts

Hongyu Wang, Yiluo Li

On the 50th anniversary of the publication of Toward a Poor Curriculum, this article celebrates currere’s transnational and global influence by exploring the…

#Intercultural dialogue #Asian philosophy #subjectivity #currere

p. 232-252

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Special Issue: 50th Anniversary of Currere № 08

Exploring miseducation and education: Arriving at a parental engagement tutoring continuum through a currere, duoethnography, and arts-based reflexivity inquiry

Sandra Jack-Malik, Janet L. Kuhnke

This article describes an inquiry between a literacy tutor and a nurse-researcher. Using three interwoven research methodologies: currere, duoethnography and arts-based…

#Parental engagement continuum #tutoring #duoethnography #currere

p. 253-271

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Special Issue: 50th Anniversary of Currere № 09

Cosmo-currere: Conventional to circumspective

Fay Bigloo

Through autobiographical study, I explore the relations of my lived experiences with my academic interests. Conversations are complicated not only by the singularity of…

#Autobiography #attunement and interiority #re-conceptualization #natural environment

p. 272-289

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Special Issue: 50th Anniversary of Currere № 10

A currere-flow dialogue: Purpose, belonging, missteps

Ira Bogotch, Dilys Schoorman, Sheine Peart

In this study, we engaged with currere as a collaborative demonstration of resistance. Educational settings around the world today are antithetical to what Pinar and…

#The good life #resistance #methodology #beyond schooling

p. 290-306

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Special Issue: 50th Anniversary of Currere № 11

A/r/tographic currere beyond colonial time: Four learning stories

Cate Inver, Lori York, Brittney Townrow, Shannon Leddy

Working in the spirit of sister scholarship, we enact currere through a/r/tographic methods and share our learning stories with each other. We notice significant themes…

#Decolonial #a/r/tography #currere #transtemporal

p. 307-326

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Special Issue: 50th Anniversary of Currere № 12

Currere, community, and self: the work of understanding and becoming

Ivon Prefontaine

In this inquiry, I explore the lived experience of learning to use currere and examine my intellectual interests. Drawing on Pinar’s method of currere, the inquiry…

#Currere #autobiography #teacher education #William Pinar

p. 327-339

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Special Issue: 50th Anniversary of Currere № 13

Working towards in-betweenness: A currere approach to the doctoral journey

Dina Al-Madhoun, Ezgi Ciftci-Sanal, Zhiyun Zhou, Elizabeth La Rocque, Teresa Strong-Wilson

To begin a doctorate is to enter a crossing. Institutions chart the journey through milestones and measurable outputs, yet the doctoral experience is often lived…

#Doctoral journey #betweenness #sideshadowing #juxtaposition

p. 340-357

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