EDCP faculty

Research Interests

Biography

Before coming to the University of British Columbia, where he directs the Centre for the Study of the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies, Pinar taught curriculum theory at Louisiana State University, where he served as the St. Bernard Parish Alumni Endowed Professor. He has also served as the Frank Talbott Professor at the University of Virginia and the A. Lindsay O'Connor Professor of American Institutions at Colgate University. He has held visiting appointments at Teachers College, Columbia University, Ohio State University, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the University of Alberta, and the University of British Columbia, among other institutions. He has lectured widely, including Harvard University, McGill University, and the Universities of Chicago, Oslo, Tokyo, and Wisconsin-Madison.

Dr. Pinar took his B.S. in Education at Ohio State University, graduating in 1969. He taught English at the Paul D. Schreiber High School in Port Washington, Long Island, New York from 1969-1971, returning to Ohio State to finish his M.A. in 1970 and the Ph.D. in 1972. Dr. Pinar is the founding editor of the scholarly journal JCT, and with Janet Miller, the founder of the Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, as well as the founder and now President of the International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies and the founder of its American affiliate, the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, for which he serves as Conference Committee chair.

Dr.Pinar is the author of Race, Religion and a Curriculum of Reparation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), The Synoptic Text Today and other essays: Curriculum Development after the Reconceptualization (Peter Lang, 2006), What Is Curriculum Theory? (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004), Autobiography, Politics, and Sexuality (Peter Lang, 1994), The Gender of Racial Politics and Violence in America (Peter Lang, 2001), the senior author of Understanding Curriculum (Peter Lang, 1995), and the editor of several collections, among them Queer Theory in Education (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998), The Passionate Mind of Maxine Greene (Falmer, 1998), Contemporary Curriculum Discourses (Peter Lang, 1999), and the International Handbook of Curriculum Research (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003). He is the editor of book series in curriculum theory at Lawrence Erlbaum and Peter Lang. In 2000 he received the LSU Distinguished Faculty Award and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Educational Research Association; in 2004 he received an American Educational Research Association Outstanding Book Award for What is Curriculum Theory?

Selected Publications

Books

(in press) Curriculum Studies in South Africa: Intellectual Histories, Present Circumstances. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

2009 The Worldliness of a Cosmopolitan Education: Passionate Lives in Public Service. New York: Routledge.

2007 Intellectual advancement through disciplinarity: Verticality and horizontality in curriculum studies. Rotterdam and Taipei: Sense Publishers.

2007 Queering Straight Teachers. (Edited with Nelson Rodriguez.) New York: Peter Lang.

2006 The Synoptic Text Today and other essays: Curriculum Development after the Reconceptualization. New York: Peter Lang.

2006 Race, Religion, and a Curriculum of Reparation: Teacher Education for a Multicultural Society. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

2005 Curriculum in a New Key: The Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki. (Edited with Rita L. Irwin.) Lawrence Erlbaum.

2004 What Is Curriculum Theory? Lawrence Erlbaum.

2003 The Internationalization of Curriculum Studies. Edited with William E. Doll, Jr., Donna Trueit, and Hongyu Wang. New York: Peter Lang.

2003 Handbook of International Research in Curriculum (ed.). Mahwah, NJ Lawrence Erlbaum.

2001 The Gender of Racial Politics and Violence in America: Lynching, Prison Rape, and the Crisis of Masculinity. New York: Peter Lang.

1999 How We Work (edited with Marla Morris and Mary Aswell Doll). Peter Lang.

1999 Contemporary Curriculum Discourses. (ed.). New York: Peter Lang.

1998 The Passionate Mind of Maxine Greene: “I Am ... Not Yet.” (ed.). London: Falmer.

1998 Queer Theory in Education. (ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

1998 Curriculum: Toward New Identities. (ed.). New York: Garland.

1995 Understanding Curriculum. (With William Reynolds, Patrick Slattery, and Peter Taubman). New York: Peter Lang.

1994 Autobiography, Politics and Sexuality: Essays in Curriculum Theory 1972-1992. New York: Peter Lang.

1993 Understanding Curriculum as Racial Text. (edited with Louis A. Castenell, Jr.). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

1992 Understanding Curriculum as Phenomenological and Deconstructed Text. (edited with William M.Reynolds). New York: Teachers College Press.

1991 Curriculum as Social Psychoanalysis: The Significance of Place. (edited with Joe L. Kincheloe). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

1988 Contemporary Curriculum Discourses. (ed.)Scottsdale, AZ: Gorsuch Scarisbrick, 1988.

1981 Curriculum and Instruction: Alternatives in Education. (edited with Henry A. Giroux and Anthony Penna). Berkeley, CA: McCutchan.

1976 Toward a Poor Curriculum. (with Madeleine R. Grumet). Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt. 177 pp.

1975 Curriculum Theorizing: The Reconceptualists. (ed.). Berkeley, CA: McCutchan. [Reissued in 2000 by Educator’s International Press, Troy, New York, as Curriculum Studies: The Reconceptualization.]

1974 Heightened Consciousness, Cultural Revolution, and Curriculum Theory. (ed.). Berkeley, CA: McCutchan.

Forewords, Introductions, Afterwords

Preface. The Sound of Silence Breaking and Other Essays by Janet L. Miller. New York: Peter Lang. (2005)

Preface to Rita L. Irwin and Alex de Cosson (Eds.). (in press). A/r/tography: Rendering Self through Arts-Based Living Inquiry. Vancouver, B.C.: Pacific Educational Press. (2004)

Afterword. Kevin Kumashiro's Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning Toward Social Justice (109-116)New York: RoutledgeFalmer. (2004)

Foreword to William M. Reynolds' Curriculum: A River Runs Through It (ix-xvii). New York: Peter Lang. (2003)

Preface to Alice J. Pitt's The Play of the Personal (vii-xviii). Peter Lang. (2003)

High Volume Traffic in the Intertext: An Afterword. Erika Hasebe-Ludt and Wanda Hurren (Eds.), Curriculum Intertext: Place/Language/Pedagogy (I279-295). New York: Peter Lang .(2003)

Foreword to Marla Morris and John A. Weaver (Eds.), Difficult Memories: Talk in a (Post) Holocaust Era (xi-xvi). New York Peter Lang. (2002)

Foreword. Journal of Critical Inquiry into Curriculum and Instruction 4 (2), 3-4. (2002)

Foreword to Kate Evans' Negotiating the Self (ix-xv) New York: Routledge. (2002)

Introduction to Thomas E. Barone's Aesthetics, Politics,and Educational Inquiry (vii-xvii) New York: Peter Lang. (2000)

Foreword to Susan Talburt and Shirley Steinberg (Eds.), Thinking Queer. New York: Peter Lang. (2000)

Introduction to James G. Henderson and Kathleen R. Kesson (Eds.),Understanding Democratic Curriculum Leadership (vii-xvi). New York:Teachers College Press. (1999)

Introduction to J. Dan Marshall, James T. Sears, and William H. Schubert, Turning Points: An American Memoir (v-viii New York: Merrill/Prentice-Hall. (1999)

Introduction to The Lure of the Transcendent: The Collected Essays of Dwayne Huebner (xv xxviii). [Collected and introduced by William F. Pinar. Edited by Vikki Hillis.] Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. (1999)

Introduction to Ivor Goodson,The Making of Curriculum. [Second edition.] London: Falmer. (1999)

Introduction to Barry Macdonald (ed.), Theory as a Prayerful Act: The Collected Essays of James B. Macdonald. New York: Peter Lang. (1995)

Introduction to Mary Aswell Doll, To the Lighthouse and Back. New York: Peter Lang. (1995)

Conference Presentations

Keynote Address to the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum, Austin, October 7, 2005, Texas. Title: Curriculum and Study, not Teaching and Curriculum.

Keynote Address to the Conference on the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies, Capitol Normal University, Beijing, China, May 2, 2005. Title: Complicated Conversation through the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies.

Keynote Address to the Israeli National Conference on Curriculum Studies, Jerusalem, 23, 2005. Title: Complicated Conversation through the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies.

Keynote Address to the American Educational Research Association (Special Interest Group: Biographical Studies in Education), April 12, 2005. Title: The Emergence of Ida B. Wells.

Keynote Address to the American Educational Research Association¹s Professors of Education Society on the occasion of being honored with the Mary Ann Raywid Award, San Diego, April 13, 2004. Title:The Gender and Racial Politics of Contemporary School Reform.

Keynote Address at the Conference on Discourse, Power, Resistance: Global Issues, Local Solutions, held at the University of Plymouth, U.K., April 5-7, 2004. Title: The Internationalization of Curriculum Studies.

Keynote Address to the Mexican Educational Research Association (COMIE), Guadalajara, Mexico, November, 2003. Title: The Internationalization of Curriculum Studies.

Presidential Address to the International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, Triennial Meeting, Shanghai (China), October 2003.Title: A Bridge between North American and Chinese Curriculum Studies.

Keynote Address to Australian Curriculum Studies Association, Adelaide, September, 2003. Title: Horizontality and Verticality in the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies.

Keynote Address to the Brazilian-Portuguese Curriculum Studies Conference, University of Minho, Portugal, February 2002. Title: The Sodomitical Genesis of "Race"in the West.

Keynote Address to the Association for Curriculum and Instruction, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, May, 2001. Title: The Internationalization of Curriculum Studies.

Keynote Address to the LSU Conference on the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies, Baton Rouge, April, 2000. Title: The Internationalization of Curriculum Studies.

Keynote Address to the European Conference on Curriculum and Didactics, Institute for Educational Research, University of Oslo (Norway), August, 1995. Title: The State of Curriculum Studies in North America.

Keynote Address presented to the World Conference on Curriculum, sponsored by UNESCO and The Government of Chile, Santiago, November, 1993. Title: U.S. School Reform and Curriculum Decentralization.

Keynote Address. National Conference of the Society of Educators and Scholars, Wichita, Kansas, October, 1991. Title: Understanding Curriculum as a Racial Text.

Keynote Address (with Ralph W. Tyler) to the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. St. Louis, March, 1981. Title: The Reconceptualization of Curriculum Studies.

Keynote Address to American Association of School Administrators,
Minneapolis, July, 1978.Title: Notes on the Curriculum Field.

First Annual State-of-the-Art Address to Division B (Curriculum), American Educational Research Association, Toronto, April, 1978. Title: Notes the Curriculum Field.

Keynote event at the New York State Council of Teachers of English, Saratoga Springs, March,1976. A Debatewith Louis Kampf, Professor of Humanities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Topic: The Politics of Literature.

Other conference presentations (refereed)

Teaching the Queer Character of Racism. Paper presentation to the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, April 14, 2005.

Complicated Conversation through the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies. Paper presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, Montreal, April 10, 2005.

What is Curriculum Studies? Presentation to the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, San Diego, April 10, 2004.

The Future of Curriculum Studies. Paper presentation to the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, San Diego, April 12, 2004.

The Advancement of Curriculum Studies: A Rational and Two Proposals. Paper presentation to the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, San Diego, April 11, 2004.

In Search of the Future: Audience, Theory, Practice. Paper presentation to the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, San Diego, April 12, 2004.

Gender and Racial Politics of Contemporary School Reform. Address Paper presentation given to the American Educational Research Association¹s Professors of Education Society on the occasion of being honored with the Mary Ann Raywid Award, San Diego, April 13, 2004.

The Saturation of the Civic with the Sexual: A Presentation to the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) Pre-conference "Re-imagining Citizenship." Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada), May, 2003.

A Lingering Note: An Introduction to the Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki. Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada), May, 2003.

The Primal Scene. Paper presented to the Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Dayton, Ohio, October, 2003.

Sexuality and Visuality in the Figuration of the Child. American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April, 2002.

The Internationalization of Curriculum Studies: A Status Report. American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, New Orleans, April, 2002.

Anti-intellectualism in American Curriculum Studies. The Bergamo Conference, Dayton, Ohio, October, 2002.

The Sodomitical Genesis of "Race" in the West. The Bergamo Conference, Dayton, Ohio, October, 2001.

he Sodomitical Genesis of "Race" in the West. Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, October, 2001.

The Internationalization of Curriculum Studies, Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, Québec, May, 2001.

Race, Sex, and an Autobiographics of Alterity. American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April,2000.

American Teacher Education Reform, International Conference on Teacher Education, University of Paris (France), April, 1996.

The Curriculum Theory of William A. Reid. Paper presented to the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association,San Francisco, April, 1995.

Bodies of Knowledge. Paper presented to the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, April, 1995.

Regimes of Reason. Paper presented to the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, April, 1995.

Understanding Curriculum: A Letter to the Next Generation. Paper presented to the JCT Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 1994.

Understanding Curriculum: A Letter to the Next Generation. Paper presented to the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April, 1994.

Dancing in Back of the Mirror: A Performance of Letters (with Margo A. Figgins, University of Virginia). Paper presented to the Bergamo Conference for Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, October, 1993.

Doublereading (with Madeleine R. Grumet). Paper presented to the Modern Language Association, New York, December, 1992.

The Lost Language of the Cranes: Windows and Mirrors in the Regressive Phase of Currere, Bergamo Conference for Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Dayton, Ohio, October,1992.

"Dreamt into Existence by Others" : Curriculum Theory and School Reform, American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, April, 1992.

Understanding Curriculum as an Autobiographical Text. Bergamo Conference, Dayton, October, 1991. Understanding Curriculum as a Racial Text. National Association of Instructors of the Deaf, New Orleans, June, 1991.

Understanding Curriculum as a Racial Text. Bergamo Conference,Dayton, October, 1991.

Understanding Curriculum as a Political Text. American Educational Research Association, Boston, April, 1991.

A History of Feminist Theory and Gender Research in Curriculum Studies. (with Janet L. Miller). Bergamo Conference, October1,1989.

The White Cockatoo: Images of Abstract Expressionism in Curriculum Theory. Bergamo Conference, October, 1989.

The Hidden Curriculum with the Teaching of Science and its Relationship to Current Science Education Goals. (with Catherine Cummins and Ronald Good). American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, March, 1989.

Contributions of Poststructuralism to Curriculum Theory. American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, March,1989.

Curriculum as Social Psychoanalysis. Bergamo Conference,Dayton, October 1988. Cries and Whispers. Bergamo Conference, Dayton, October, 1988. Curriculum as Place. American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April, 1988. The Reconceptualization of Curriculum Studies. Professors of Curriculum Society, New Orleans, March, 1987. Response to Neil Postman, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, New Orleans, March, 1987.

Teaching as Desire. American Educational Research Association,Washington, D.C., April, 1987.

Notes on the Curriculum Field 1987. American Educational Research Association, Toronto, April, 1987.

Autobiography and the Architecture of Self. Bergamo Conference, Dayton, October, 1986.

Autobiography and the Architecture of Self. American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, April, 1986.

Time, Place, and Voice: Curriculum Theory and the Historical Moment. Canadian National Conference on Curriculum Theory, Edmonton, Alberta, April,1985.

Time, Place, and Voice. Bergamo Conference, Dayton, October, 1985.

The Work of Ted T. Aoki. Bergamo Conference, Dayton, October, 1985.

Teaching the Text. American Educational Research Association. New Orleans, April, 1984.

A Prayerful Act: The Work of James B. Macdonald. Bergamo Conference, Dayton, November, 1984.

Erased Drawing: Social Action and Curriculum Theory. Bergamo Conference, Dayton, November, 1984.

Teaching the Text. Bergamo Conference, Dayton, November, 1983.

An Americans View of Canadian Curriculum Studies, Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, Ottawa, June, 1983.

Curriculum as Gender Text. Airlie House Conference, Virginia, October, 1983.

Theory and Practice and the Reconceptualization of Curriculum Studies. Southeastern Philosophy of Education Society, Auburn, Alabama, May, 1983.

What is Curriculum Theory? American Educational Research Association, Los Angeles, April, 1981.

Notes on the Reconceptualization. Airlie House Conference, Virginia, October, 1981.

Caring: Conceptual Analysis and Autobiographical Method. John Dewey Society, Dallas, March, 1980.

Autobiography and Curriculum Research. American Educational Association, Boston, April, 1980. Gender, Sexuality and Curriculum Studies. American Educational Research Association, Boston, April, 1980.

Notes on the Reconceptualization. Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, Montreal, June, 1980.

Notes on the Reconceptualization. Airlie House Conference, Virginia, October, 1980.

Gender, Sexuality and Curriculum Studies. American Educational Studies Association, Colorado Springs, November, 1980.

The Curriculum Field and Its Journals. American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, April, 1979.

Gender Analysis and Curriculum Research. American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, April, 1979.

The Abstract and the Concrete in Curriculum Theorizing. New York State Foundations of Education Society, Albany, May, 1979.

The Abstract and the Concrete in Curriculum Theorizing. Airlie House Conference, Virginia, October, 1979.

Post-empiricist Epistemology and Curriculum Theory. New York State< Foundations of Education Society, Oswego (NY), May,1978.

Curriculum Theory in the 1980's. Georgia State University Conference on Curriculum Theory, Atlanta, May, 1978.

A Critical Theory of Curriculum: Preliminary Notes. Conference on Critical Theory, State University of New York at Buffalo, May, 1978.

What is the Reconceptualization? Rochester Institute of Technology Conference on Curriculum Theory, Rochester, October, 1978.

The Reconceptualization of Curriculum Studies. American Educational Research Association, New York, April, 1977.

The Reconceptualization of Curriculum Studies. New York State Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, October, 1976.

Life History and Curriculum Theorizing. University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee Conference on Curriculum Theory, Milwaukee, October, 1976.

Eisner's "The Curriculum Field Today": A Reply. University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee Conference on Curriculum Theory, Milwaukee, October, 1976.

The Method of Currere. American Educational Research Association, Washington, D.C., April, 1975.

Political and Spiritual Dimensions of Currere. University of Virginia Conference on Curriculum Theory, Charlottesville, October,1975.

Political and Spiritual Dimensions of Currere. Middle Atlantic States Philosophy of Education Society, Philadelphia, October,1975.

Search for a Method. American Educational Research Association, Chicago, April, 1974.

The Analysis of Educational Experience. State University of New York, College of Arts and Sciences at Geneseo, Department of Philosophy Conference on Educational Theory, Geneseo, May, 1974.

Self and Others. Xavier University (Ohio) Conference on Curriculum Theory, Cincinnati, October, 1974.

Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown. American Educational Studies Association, New York, November, 1974.

Psycho-social and Moral Elements of Curriculum Theory. American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April, 1973.

Heightened Consciousness, Cultural Revolution, and Curriculum Theory. University of Rochester Conference on Curriculum Theory, Rochester, May,1973.

Sanity, Madness and the School. Association for Humanistic Psychology, Montréal, June, 1973.

The Analysis of Educational Experience. American Educational Studies Association, Denver, November, 1973.