Editor's Pick Articles

Becoming ethically preoccupied through Currere: W.G. Sebald, Franz Kafka and narrative self-representation

Within education, we can learn a great deal from others’ uses of narrative as a site of praxis from which to work through difficult psychic processes. The narratives published by W.G. Sebald and Franz Kafka—as well as…

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Currere as Punctuated Manifestions

Currere emphasizes individual experience and how one can learn from these experiences (Pinar, 2011). This paper explores how one’s individual experience (currere writing) affords “punctuated manifestations” in which one…

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Living our subjective presence: An interview with William F. Pinar

This paper is a narrative account of the conversation that took place at Pinar’s house, on April 4, 2023, focusing on a few themes that emerge from his 2023 book A Praxis of Presence in Curriculum Theory: Advancing…

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Unveiling the stories that illuminate our path: The pedagogical significance of autobiographical study and the method of currere

In today’s educational landscape, instrumentalist ideologies embedded in politically entrenched school curricula often overshadow the richness of diverse human experiences, perpetuating colonial shadows within…

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Working from within: Currere, contemplation, and lived experience

Currere and contemplation both offer resistance to the forces of efficiency, measurement, and control in education. While currere centers autobiographical inquiry to reconstruct self and society across nonlinear time,…

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Teresa Strong-Wilson McGill University

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Wanying Wang St. John's University

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Ying Ma Kwantlen Polytechnic University

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Patricia Liu Baergen Thompson Rivers University

Daiyairi Muivah Thompson Rivers University

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Hongyu Wang Oklahoma State University

Jennifer Schneider Oklahoma State University

§ 01 — Current Issue

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Vol. 3 · 1

Published Mar 2026

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§ 02 — Articles

Recently Published Articles

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Editor’s introduction

William F. Pinar

This small issue – just three essays – makes a very large impression, as the publications within demonstrate the wide range of currere studies, from the…

p. 1-2

10.70116/30654572166

‘Something that wants me to find it’: Hauntology, race, and curricular disturbances in Updike’s “rabbit” tetralogy

Christopher Cruz

This paper interrogates the epistemic and pedagogical significance of literature and philosophy within the field of curriculum theory through a reading of John…

#Curriculum #hauntology #race #literature

p. 3-19

10.70116/30654572117

Charter schools as sites of neoliberal cultural reproduction: Prestige, performance, and inequity in the International Baccalaureate era

Sepideh Yasrebi

Set in a racially and economically marginalized South Bronx middle school during the late charter school era, and informed by a retrospective autoethnography, this…

#Neoliberalism #International Baccalaureate (IB) #hidden curriculum #cultural capital

p. 20-43

10.70116/30654572125

Finding a friend in currere

Tamara Wiehe

In this article, I recount finding a friend in currere—a method that reconceptualizes curriculum as lived (Pinar, 1994)—during my master’s degree in…

#Currere #internal family systems #attachment theory #self-synthesis

p. 44-50

10.70116/30654572128

§ 03 — At a glance