Editor’s introduction

In this issue we learn more about currere and praxis in Africa, America, and Mexico. While acknowledging that the Estados Unidos y México are also América -…

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…

Finding a friend in currere

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…

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…

ARTiculating currere: Arts-based methods and methodology to facilitate and understand biographic situations

This article explores how an instructor of undergraduate writing courses within a public university used arts-based writing assignments to facilitate the…

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…

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

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…

Local teachers’ career experiences in international schools: A currere study from Côte d’Ivoire

This phenomenological study explores the career experiences of 12 local Ivorian teachers working in international schools in Côte d’Ivoire through Pinar’s…

Re-listening to Alexisonfire: Duo-currere, adolescence, and the forms of study therewithin

This article shares insights emergent from our practices of listening and re-listening to music that deeply affected us during adolescence. Drawing methodologically…

Navigating the complexities of academic pathways in Turkey: A currere-based exploration

This autobiographical study explores the author’s academic journey in Turkey, highlighting the dynamic and complex nature of this path within a challenging…

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…

Currere as contemporary art: Weaving creative research, purposeful vulnerability, and poetic expression to nurture teacher self-knowledge

We Teach as We Are Taught, 2024

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The heart of the matter: Jean-Luc Nancy

Curriculum theorists write about things that no one wants to talk about. Currere is not just about lived experience, but it is also about death. And it is this that…

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…

Read and resonate: Welcome to this, the inaugural issue of Currere and Praxis

My thanks to Professors Sümer Aktan and Ünal Deniz for inviting me to serve as Editor-in-Chief of Currere and Praxis. My thanks, too, to Teresa Strong-Wilson…

Displacing curriculum normativity through teachers’ autobiographical processes: A case study from Brazil

This text engages with discussions on curricular normativity and autobiographical processes, challenging prescriptive discourses and subject-centered perspectives.…

Editor’s introduction

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

Enter and reimagine: Exploring currere together

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

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

Continuous curriculum updating: An alternative approach to periodical reformulation in university

Research on curriculum continuous updating is reported (CCU); the objective was to test a methodology and its technological database device. The hypothesis considers…

Pedagogy, demagogy, and subjectness: Encounter and responsibility

The article delves into the nuanced relationship between pedagogy and demagogy, analyzing how they shape the educational experience. It highlights that when pedagogy…

From the search for a distinct curricular understanding to the curricular voice of a “we”

This text presents a two-voiced autobiographical research study, combining the perspectives of: (1) an education scholar specializing in curriculum theory research,…