William Pinar is a pivotal figure in curriculum theory, whose work transformed the understanding of education from a static subject to a dynamic process. His introduction of the concept of 'currere' radically shifted the view of curriculum from a noun to a verb, emphasizing its experiential and active nature. Through his foundational theoretical contributions and the establishment of key academic forums, Pinar has profoundly shaped the field. His scholarly interests extend beyond curriculum to encompass cultural studies, international studies, and queer studies, reflecting a broad intellectual engagement.
Advancing Currere against Cultural Crises in Education
William F. Pinar introduces a praxis of presence, expanding on his influential concept of currere, to advocate for a distinctive mode of individual engagement in response to contemporary cultural crises in education. This work emphasizes the importance of personal involvement and reflection in navigating the challenges faced within educational contexts.
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Passionate Lives in Public Service
Focusing on passionate lives in public service, this work presents a cosmopolitan curriculum that emphasizes the interconnectedness of intellectual rigor and scholarly depth with diverse real-world engagement. William F. Pinar explores how curriculum studies can effectively address these complex relationships, proposing a framework that integrates academic excellence with a commitment to societal involvement.
Synoptic textbooks have played a major role in the intellectual advancement of U.S. curriculum studies. William F. Pinar argues for a new synoptic text, summarizing recent and relevant research in the academic disciplines toward the subjective and social reconstruction of the public sphere that is the school classroom. Such a reconceptualization of curriculum development enables teachers to complicate the classroom conversations they themselves will lead. Subsequent essays demonstrate the thematic and methodological forms such curriculum development might take.
Perhaps not since Gunnar Myrdal’s 1944 classic An American Dilemma has a book appeared as synoptic and unsettling as The Gender of Racial Politics and Violence in America. Here William F. Pinar elucidates the great «American dilemma», that «peculiar» institution of racial subjugation, especially its gendered – and specifically «queer» – psychosexual dynamics. Explicating in detail two imprinting episodes in American racial history – lynching and prison rape – Pinar argues that the gender of racial politics and violence in America is in some fundamental sense «queer». This book will be of interest to students in education, cultural studies, African American studies, women’s and gender studies, and history.
JCT was the most important journal of curriculum studies during the field's paradigm shift in the 1970s. Its editors sponsored a yearly conference, which also supported the intellectual breakthrough that was the reconceptualization of American curriculum studies. This collection brings together the best of JCT articles, plus key documentary material of importance to scholars and students alike. Undergraduate and graduate students in curriculum, instruction, and foundations would find this book useful and insightful.
Perhaps not since Ralph Tyler's (1949) Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction has a book communicated the field as completely as Understanding Curriculum. From historical discourses to breaking developments in feminist, poststructuralist, and racial theory, including chapters on political theory, phenomenology, aesthetics, theology, international developments, and a lengthy chapter on institutional concerns, the American curriculum field is here. It will be an indispensable textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses alike.
Like a particularly heartfelt letter to the reader, William Pinar's Autobiography, Politics and Sexuality: Essays in Curriculum Theory 1972-1992 asserts the viability of autobiography as a tool of study in the area of curriculum and instruction. As an alternative to the sterile bureaucratic style of curriculum studies that dominated the field at one time, William Pinar has reconceptualized curriculum studies in a more organic, flexible and exciting way which honors the immediacy and complexity of students, teachers and their relationships by taking into account their lives as they live them. Autobiography, Politics and Sexuality: Essays in Curriculum Theory 1972-1992 is a classic in the field of education studies.