1st Edition

A Continuing Journey of Currere Toward a Fluid, Embodied, Attuned Self-Understanding

By Wanying Wang Copyright 2027
142 Pages
by Routledge

A Continuing Journey of Currere  invites readers into the evolving process of understanding currere, a concept introduced by William F. Pinar in the 1970s. Rather than viewing curriculum as planned, currere frames curriculum as a lived journey of self-understanding. It calls readers to turn inward to explore themselves in relation to others and the world while situating within the entanglement... Read more

Introduction Chapter 1 Currere, manifested punctuations, and folk poetic Chapter 2 Currere as a curriculum of cosmopolitanism Chapter 3 Currere as ethical commitment Chapter 4 Currere and teacher knowledge Chapter 5 Currere, archetypes, and poetic inquiry Chapter 6 Lost object and semiotics: A currere journey of reading myth

Biography

Wanying Wang is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at St. John’s University, USA.

Dr. Wanying Wang’s A Continuing Journey of Currere offers an important and provocative exploration of currere, indexing its enduring significance for curriculum studies while demonstrating its remarkable capacity for renewal. By placing currere in dialogue with Chinese literature and Taoist thought, Wang expands the field’s conceptual horizons and reveals how this autobiographical method can inspire innovative directions for inquiry across diverse fields, including teacher knowledge, poetic inquiry, and the ongoing project of self-understanding.

Tristan Gleason, Associate Professor, California State University, Humboldt