The method of currere in M. R. Carey’s The Girl With All the Gifts


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Currere, narrative, carceral classroom, educational experience

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The Girl With All the Gifts depicts the struggle of a group of humans who embark on a journey of survival with a gifted girl named Melanie. Although the narrative is not set in the context of education, the military and scientists in the story set up a carceral classroom to investigate the infected children’s abilities, including Melanie. In the classroom, the learning initiates Melanie’s self-realization as the next person during the outbreak of the hungries plague, demonstrating Pinar’s method of currere. This paper examines how Melanie’s self-realization embodies the four steps in the method of currere and discusses the educational experience within two confrontational views on education presented in this narrative.

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2024-09-30

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Chi Kai Lam, P. (2024). The method of currere in M. R. Carey’s The Girl With All the Gifts . Currere and Praxis, 1(1), 53–59. https://doi.org/10.70116/3065457240

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