Superfluidity
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I have unknowingly written using the Currere steps of regressive, progressive, analytical, and synthetical writing (Pinar, 2004) by reflectively questioning, examining, critiquing, and narrating: 1) my own educational and academic life experiences; 2) how those experiences influenced my progress as an academic and identity as an educator; 3) in what ways the emergence of insights impacted my pedagogical effectiveness; and 4) the holistic sense-making process utilized to authenticate my becoming of “self” in the field of education. This piece describes my application of the Currere writing through a self-designed poetic process and presents a poem example titled Superfluidity.
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