Outsiders, Outlaws, and Oenophiles: A Border Pedagogy and Currere as Sacred Space

• In Event: 58.083 - Roundtable Session 26
  In Roundtable Session: 58.083-11 - Innovative Pedagogical Approaches for the 21st Century

Abstract

This presentation will explore the struggles of two non-traditional scholars trying to gain/attain success in the higher education system: one toward Ph.D. status, and the other toward tenure. Through currere, duo-didacticism, and a faithful friendship forged in perseverance, despite shared rejection and disillusion, we tell our stories of how we are in the process of finding our “fit” within systems that have attempted to allude, exclude, and even destroy us. Pinar (1976) advanced currere as an autobiographical process that involved three parts: past, present, and future. Theoretically, we imagine currere as a “fourth place”: a sacred space; as a spiritual pilgrimage.

Authors

• Jennifer L. Martin, The University of Mount Union

• Julia Persky, Texas A&M University - College Station