Toward a Poor Curriculum

Fifty years since the publication of Toward a Poor Curriculum, William F. Pinar and Madeleine R. Grumet reflect on the ongoing need for a poor curriculum-one stripped of distractions such as technology to allow for the reflection and self-questioning at the heart of the book's central methodology of currere. Featuring a brand-new preface cowritten by William F. Pinar and Madeleine R. Grumet, as well as revised chapters and a never-before included chapter on the four phases of currere, this anniversary edition invites scholars of curriculum theory and teaching methods to revisit the original essays and reconsider their relevance in light of present educational and political challenges.

We Invite: Preface to the 50th Anniversary Edition Preface (2015 - 3rd edition) Preface (2006 - 2nd edition) Preface (1976) 1. Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown 2. Self and Others 3. Existential and Phenomenological Foundations 4. The Method of Currere 5. Toward a Poor Curriculum 6. Political-Spiritual Dimensions 7. Psychoanalytic Foundations 8. Subjective Reconstruction and the Rehabilitation of Habit 9. Currere 10. Autobiography: Personal Stories in a Public World