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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

Intercultural currere in Asian contexts

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Hongyu Wang Corresponding Oklahoma State University hongyu.wang@okstate.edu United States
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Yiluo Li Oklahoma State University United States
Pages232-252 PublishedOct 1, 2026 LicenseOpen Access
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Abstract

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 trajectories of currere in Asian contexts, including in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East. First, this article starts by elaborating several major conceptions of currere that are particularly related to these trajectories. Second, the article identifies and further focuses on three intertwined themes revealed in the conceptual and narrative currere as well as its use in teacher education across diverse traditions. These three themes are:  (1) the capacity of currere for resisting institutional and cultural conformity; (2) the need for adapting currere in national, political, cultural, gendered, and transnational contexts; (3) the possibility of forming dialogical relationships with currere through nonduality, virtues, and relational ontology. Third, the article ends with an im/possible synthesis, proposing a situated and relational understanding of intercultural currere. Importantly, intercultural and international currere opens transformative possibilities for rethinking the interplay between curriculum, subjectivity/personhood, history, and culture in a global era marked by technological acceleration, cultural fragmentation, and shared planetary challenges.

Keywords

#Intercultural dialogue #Asian philosophy #subjectivity #currere #personhood #temporality

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