Unveiling the stories that illuminate our path: The pedagogical significance of autobiographical study and the method of currere

Patricia Liu Baergen, Daiyairi Muivah

In today’s educational landscape, instrumentalist ideologies embedded in politically entrenched school curricula often overshadow the richness of diverse human…

#Autobiographical inquiry #method of currere #pedagogical praxis #lived experiences

p. 65-80

10.70116/3065457275

Editor’s introduction

William F. Pinar

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 -…

p. 81-82

10.70116/30654572119

Finding a friend in currere

Tamara Wiehe

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…

#Currere #internal family systems #attachment theory #self-synthesis

p. 44-50

10.70116/30654572128

Currere as Punctuated Manifestions

Wanying Wang

Currere emphasizes individual experience and how one can learn from these experiences (Pinar, 2011). This paper explores how one’s individual experience…

#Currere #manifestations #contingency #attunement and interiority

p. 43-52

10.70116/3065457239

Living our subjective presence: An interview with William F. Pinar

Ying Ma

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…

#Subjective presence #study #pedagogical praxis #currere

p. 3-14

10.70116/3065457270

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

Sepideh Yasrebi

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

#Neoliberalism #International Baccalaureate (IB) #hidden curriculum #cultural capital

p. 20-43

10.70116/30654572125