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Currere and Praxis
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Vol. 3 · Issue 3 · 2026 Oct 1, 2026 Special Issue: 50th Anniversary of Currere

A currere-flow dialogue: Purpose, belonging, missteps

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Ira Bogotch Corresponding Florida Atlantic University ibogotch@fau.edu United States
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Dilys Schoorman Florida Atlantic University United States
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Sheine Peart Lincoln Bishop University United Kingdom
Pages290-306 PublishedOct 1, 2026 LicenseOpen Access
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Abstract

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 Grumet have offered educators theoretically and methodologically. We have asked how our sharing of personal and professional journeys in the face of continuous attacks on public education might reveal or open creative spaces for critical self-reflection and educative actions. Fueled by our curiosities and our individual purposes to challenge the marginalization of multiculturalism inside mainstream curriculum and instruction, and to bring broader and deeper understandings among our students through pedagogical discourses, we translated our experiences in the direction of notions of the good life for all. Currere illuminated the paradox of a profession under attack while striving to communicate and educate ourselves and others worldwide. Thus, currere offers pathways towards a vision of a better world by keeping the door open to new questions, ideas, and diverse ways of knowing.

Keywords

#The good life #resistance #methodology #beyond schooling #currere #public good

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