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This plateau introduces the concept of currere as living with/in/through curriculum. The plateau draws on curriculum inquiry research, particularly Pinar (Currere: towards reconceptualistaion. In: Curriculum theorizing: the reconceptualists. McCutchan Publishing Corperation, Berkeley, pp 396–414, 1975; What is curriculum theory? Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ, 2004), and Pinar and Grumet (Toward a poor curriculum. Kendall/Hunt, Dubuque, 1976), to chart developments in currere as a method of curriculum autobiography. The plateau includes a partial history of curriculum as currere, currere as a method, and currere in a postmodern era.
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Doll, in advocating a (re)vision of curriculum, calls for closer observance of the relationships with/in which we work, live and play. In doing so he explores his five C’s of curriculum: currere, complexity, cosmology, conversation and community.
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Stewart, A. (2020). Living Curriculum: Currere. In: Developing Place-responsive Pedagogy in Outdoor Environmental Education. International Explorations in Outdoor and Environmental Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40320-1_3
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