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Publication Date: 2025
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Anti-Currere
Jason Wallin
Philosophical Inquiry in Education, v32 n1 p57-70 2025
This article proposes "anti-currere" as a non-philosophical intervention in curriculum theory, drawing on the work of François Laruelle to challenge the field's foundational obsession with the Real. It argues that curriculum study, despite its surface diversity, remains structurally wedded to a philosophical decision that monopolizes reality by predetermining what is thinkable. Through incisive critique of canonical concepts like the planned/lived curriculum binary, the paper reveals how curricular discourse habitually reproduces the very structures it claims to disrupt. In response, "anti-currere" is posited as a radical strategy of withdrawal from the decisional compulsions of the field -- a minoritarian, non-standard mode of thought that reorients curriculum toward the immanence of the Real rather than its capture. Rather than offering another curriculum-as-"x," "anti-currere" opens a space for stranger, generic curricular thought unbound by the auto-production of identity, representation, and method.
Descriptors: Intervention, Curriculum, Educational Theories, Educational Philosophy, Educational Strategies
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