Editorial
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:…
Issue · 2026
Special Issue: 50th anniversary of Currere
Vol.
3 · 3
Published
Oct 2026
Articles
13
Authors
24
Special Issue: 50th Anniversary of Currere
Guest/Issue Editor:1 McGill University, Canada
§ Table of contents
Articles
Pinar’s addendum
I wanted to thank Teresa Strong-Wilson for editing this special issue of Currere and Praxis in honor of the publication of the 50th year anniversary edition of Toward a…
Beyond skills, screens, and test scores: William Pinar and the preservation of the human subject in curriculum studies
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
Currere of a reader
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
Invoking educational subjectivity within Türkiye’s centralized system: A currere perspective
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
Currere and (Il)legibility: Refusing the synthetic moment
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
Intercultural currere in Asian contexts
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
Exploring miseducation and education: Arriving at a parental engagement tutoring continuum through a currere, duoethnography, and arts-based reflexivity inquiry
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
Cosmo-currere: Conventional to circumspective
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
A currere-flow dialogue: Purpose, belonging, missteps
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
A/r/tographic currere beyond colonial time: Four learning stories
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
Currere, community, and self: the work of understanding and becoming
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
Working towards in-betweenness: A currere approach to the doctoral journey
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