Table Of ContentE ducational Experience as Lived
“ Not only is this an important book, it is also a necessary book. William
Pinar is one of the major curriculum theorists of the past forty years. While he
launched the reconceptualization of curriculum studies, subsequent events have
shown that he has set the scholarly direction for the fi eld in the 21st Century.”
T errance R. Carson, University of Alberta, Canada
I n this volume William F. Pinar enacts his theory of curriculum, detailing the
relations among knowledge, history, and alterity. The introduction is his intel-
lectual life history, naming the contributions he has made to understanding
educational experience. Through his portraits of educational experience as
lived—e ncompassing study as the center of educational experience, his con-
ceptions of disciplinarity and internationalization, reactivating the past to fi nd
the future, the gendering and racialization of U.S. school reform, the technol-
ogization of education, and the educational project of subjective and social
reconstruction—Pinar threads the relations among knowledge, history, and
alterity.
W illiam F. Pinar is Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of
British Columbia. He has also served as the St. Bernard Parish Alumni Endowed
Professor at Louisiana State University, the Frank Talbott Professor at the
University of Virginia, and the A. Lindsay O’Connor Professor of American
Institutions at Colgate University. The former President of the International
Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies and the founder of
its U.S. affi liate, the American Association for the Advancement of Curricu-
lum Studies, Pinar received, in 2000, the LSU Distinguished Faculty Award
and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Educational Research
Association.
W orld Library of Educationalists Series
T hinking and Rethinking the University
T he selected works of Ronald Barnett
R onald Barnett
T he Politics of Race, Class and Special Education
T he selected works of Sally Tomlinson
S ally Tomlinson
L essons from History of Education
T he selected works of Richard Aldrich
R ichard Aldrich
K nowledge, Power, and Education
T he selected works of Michael W. Apple
M ichael W. Apple
E ducation Policy and Social Class
T he selected works of Stephen J. Ball
S tephen J. Ball
R ace, Culture, and Education
T he selected works of James A. Banks
J ames A. Banks
I n Search of Pedagogy Volume I
T he selected works of Jerome Bruner, 1957–1978
J erome S. Bruner
I n Search of Pedagogy Volume II
T he selected works of Jerome Bruner, 1979–2006
J erome S. Bruner
R eimagining Schools
T he selected works of Elliot W. Eisner
E lliot W. Eisner
R efl ecting Where the Action Is
T he selected works of John Elliot
J ohn Elliot
T he Development and Education of the Mind
T he Selected Works of Howard Gardner
H oward Gardner
C onstructing Worlds through Science Education
T he selected works of John K. Gilbert
J ohn K. Gilbert
M aking Sense of Learners Making Sense of Written Language
T he Selected Words of Kenneth S. Goodman and Yetta M. Goodman
K enneth S. Goodman and Yetta M. Goodman
L earning, Curriculum and Life Politics
T he selected works of Ivor F. Goodson
I vor F. Goodson
E ducation and the Nation State
T he selected works of S. Gopinathan
S . Gopinathan
E ducational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
T he selected works of Mary E. James
M ary E. James
T eaching, Learning and Education in Late Modernity
T he selected works of Peter Jarvis
P eter Jarvis
E ducation, Markets, and the Public Good
T he selected works of David F. Labaree
D avid F. Labaree
P olitics, Policies and Pedagogies in Education
T he selected works of Bob Lingard
B ob Lingard
A Life in Education
T he selected works of John Macbeath
J ohn Macbeath
O vercoming Exclusion
S ocial Justice through Education
P eter Mittler
L earner-Centered English Language Education
T he selected works of David Nunan
D avid Nunan
E ducational Philosophy and Politics
T he selected works of Michael A. Peters
M ichael A. Peters
E ncountering Education in the Global
T he selected works of Fazal Rizvi
F azal Rizvi
L andmarks in Literacy
T he Selected Works of Frank Smith
F rank Smith
C orporatism, Social Control, and Cultural Domination in
Education: From the Radical Right to Globalization
T he selected works of Joel Spring
J oel Spring
T he Curriculum and the Child
T he selected works of John White
J ohn White
T he Art and Science of Teaching and Learning
T he selected works of Ted Wragg
E . C. Wragg
C hina through the Lens of Comparative Education
T he Selected Works of Ruth Hayhoe
R uth Hayhoe
M ulticulturalism in Education and Teaching
T he selected works of Carl A. Grant
C arl A. Grant
E ducational Experience as Lived: Knowledge, History, Alterity
T he Selected Works of William F. Pinar
W illiam F. Pinar
E ducational Experience as Lived:
Knowledge, History, Alterity
T he Selected Works of William F. Pinar
W illiam F. Pinar
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Educational experience as lived : knowledge, history, alterity : the selected
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C ONTENTS
A cknowledgments ix
P reface xi
Introduction 1
1 Study 11
2 Allegory 25
3 Internationalization 36
4 Nationalism 47
5 Technology 64
6 Reform 86
7 Misrepresentation 99
8 Conversation 109
9 Place 126
1 0 Emergence 137
1 1 Alterity 152
1 2 Discipline 164
1 3 Identity 174
1 4 Resolve 180
1 5 Decolonization 188
1 6 Inwardness 201
viii Contents
1 7 Individuality 214
1 8 Cosmopolitanism 229
Epilogue 244
S ources and Permissions 247
I ndex 249
A CKNOWLEDGMENTS
F irst and foremost I express my gratitude to my exceptional editor at R outledge—
Naomi Silverman—without whose editorial encouragement and acumen this
volume would not exist.
M y thanks to Peter Taubman for introducing me to the work of Robert Musil
(c hapter 16) , to Petra Munro Hendry for encouraging my study of Jane Addams
(c hapter 17) and Ida B. Wells ( chapter 10) , to Terry Carson, Nicholas Ng-A-
Fook, and Teresa Strong-Wilson for their comments on c hapter 4, to José María
García Garduño for his critique of chapter 7, and to Nicholas Ng-A-Fook for
alerting me to the work of Ben Williamson (c hapter 6) .
M y thanks to those who have taught me and studied with me. It has been my
privilege to participate in the conversation you have stimulated.
