William Frederick Pinar was born on 1947 and is an American pedagogue.
10 Facts About William Pinar
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Apart from his fundamental contributions to theory, William Pinar is notable for establishing the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, founding the Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, and founding the International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies.
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William Pinar has served as the Frank Talbott Professor at the University of Virginia and the A Lindsay O'Connor Professor of American Institutions at Colgate University.
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William Pinar is presently at the University of British Columbia.
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In 1969, Pinar graduated from Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in education and subsequently taught English at the Paul D Schreiber High School in Port Washington, Long Island, New York, from 1969 to 1971.
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William Pinar then returned to Ohio State University to obtain Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.
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William Pinar is the founding editor of the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, creating the first issue in 1979.
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William Pinar founded, with Janet Miller, the Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice.
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William Pinar notes, reflecting back upon the reconceptualist movement of the field and the comments of Bill Pilder at the first conference in Rochester, that.
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Still, as William Pinar writes in Contemporary Curriculum Discourses, this Kuhnian-like "shift" has been slow.