Building on his seminal methodological contribution to the field – currere – here William F. Pinar posits a praxis of presence as a unique form of individual engagement against current cultural crises in education.
Bringing together a series of updated essays, articles, and new writings to form this comprehensive volume, Pinar first demonstrates how a praxis of presence furthers the study of curriculum as lived experience to overcome self-enclosure, restart lived and historical time, and understand technology through a process of regression, progression, analysis, and synthesis. Pinar then further illustrates how this practice can inform curricular responses to countering presentism, narcissism, and techno-utopianism in educators’ work with "digital natives."
Ultimately, this book offers researchers, scholars, and teacher educators in the fields of curriculum theory, the sociology of education, and educational policy more broadly the analytical and methodological tools by which to advance their understanding of currere, and in doing so, allows them to tackle the main cultural issues that educators face today.
Author(s): William F. Pinar
Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 260
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
About the Author
Other Recent Writings
Chapter 1: Currere1
The Method
Complicated Conversation
Autobiography
Cultural Crises
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 2: Presence
Presence
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 3: Study1
Study
Relationship
History, Poetry, Latin
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 4: Individuality
Opposition
Subjective Reconstruction
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 5: Authority1
Relationships
Parrhesia
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 6: Authorship
Reactivation
Nothing Else
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 7: Sadism1
Poverty
Accountability
Stifling Teachers’ Creativity
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 8: Technologization1
Privatization
Place
Pain
Practicality
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 9: Teaching1
The Techno-Nation-State
A Techno-Totalitarian State of Mind
Digital Citizenship
Being Online
Presence of the Human Subject
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 10: Experience 1
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 11: Nineteen Seventy-Two1
That First Year
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 12: Reconceptualization1
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 13: Reactivation1
A Sensual Spirituality
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 14: Absence
Profilicity
Cultural Crises
Notes
Bibliography
Appendix
Currere Bibliography
Index
