Espaço do Currículo Magazine Publishes Article by William Pinar

In issue 1 of 2025, Revista Espaço do Currículo publishes, in the Special Section, the article "PASOLINI, PUBLIC PEDAGOGY, SUBJECTIVE PRESENCE", authored by professor William F. Pinar (University of British Columbia, Canada).

Summary: In this article, Pinar invokes post-World War II Italian intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini, aligning his public pedagogy—a subjective presence immersed in historical context—with a 2013 article by Jake Burdick and Jennifer Sandlin. Pinar criticizes what he calls discursive engineering, which discards canonical concepts of education and suggests, without evidence, that changes in discourse can alter the world. Pasolini, in contrast, knew the complexity of the moment and, without the privileges of a full professor, risked his life to teach the Italian public, warning about the catastrophic path of humanity, especially with regard to the replacement of reality by virtuality and the technologization that masks the consequences of unbridled capitalism. Focusing on Pasolini's unfinished novel, Petrolio (Petroleum), and a 2014 film that addresses the intellectual's final days before his assassination, Pinar concludes with a reflection on what Tetsuo Aoki called the generative space of difference, where we can re-experience, or even reactivate, an anthropological moment in which we were still, more or less, "human".

Check out the full text: https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/rec/article/view/72923

Happy reading!