In the Summer of 2023, I was given the enjoyable task of editing the The Dwayne Huebner Interviews, “A 2015 collection of interviews with the late Dwayne Huebner, by William Pinar and Joseph Kyser”, and making them public on YouTube. Here’s a link to the playlist: see Part 1 and some (ongoing) notes from Huebner below.
See also: Pinar’s Curriculum Studies in Canada project
Huebner, D. E. (1999). In. V. Hillis (Ed.). The Lure of the Transcendent: Collected Essays of Dwayne E. Huebner (Collected and Introduced by William F. Pinar). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203053706
The Capacity for Wonder (1959)
- What do we do in our educational program to snuff out the spark of curiosity and wonder and awe – indeed, kill the child for the sake of conformity and functional performance in this world of technical proficiency?
- We cannot foster the capacity for wonder if our whole educational program is completely functional….