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Through a combination of interpretation and reflection, the reader embarks on a journey from the author’s childhood experiences with poetry to the experiences of her students in an ELA class. Pinar’s method of currere provides a lens to explore the ideas of understanding through unlearning. Weaving original, found, and fusion poetry into a conversation with relevant literature, the author hopes to inspire other teachers to approach poetry in their lives and their classrooms with a sense of wonder and curiosity.  \nThrough my understanding of Pinar’s (1994) method of currere, I endeavour to interpret my understanding of the hate my students feel towards poetry and my own reaction to it. By exploring a specific educational experience in my classroom and working through the four steps outlined by Pinar (2004): “the regressive, the progressive, the analytical, and the synthetical” (p. 35) . Through this method, I aim to engage in a “complicated conversation” (p. 37) with myself as I work to understand my own historicity with poetry and reflect on how my students might come to new understandings of themselves about and through poetry.  \nUsing a combination of my own original poetry, found poetry, and fusion poetry, I explore how the process of unlearning might contribute to understanding. According to Green et al.(2021), “a found poem is created from existing literature through taking words and phrases andrearranging them to form a new composition” (p. 2) . Fusion poetry is also utilized when the poems stretch and move past the source text. As Green et al. noted, the idea of fusion is a nod to Gadamer and the “fusion of horizons which points to perception and coming to an understanding but also how one is changed by one’s engagement with something previously alien” (p. 2) . Poetry and poetic language have allowed me to capture and illuminate key moments, feelings, and images throughout the interpretive process.  \nHating Poetry  \n“I HATE poetry!” Brendan’s voice pushed through the chatter as I walked to the front of the class to begin the lesson, a classic poem already projected on the board.  \nWhere once I might have rolled my eyes in exaggeration and exasperation, shaken my head, and replied, “Deal with it!” my graduate studies had me working “to cultivate an interpretive ear [and] approach the world with generosity”(T. Skuce, personal communication, February 15, 2022) . Instead, I paused and approached his statement with curiosity, “You HATE poetry, Brendan? Really? All poetry? Why? What is it about a poem that makes you hate it?”  \n“Because it’s terrible and I don’t get it,” he said. I looked around the room and saw heads nodding in agreement.  \nWhile this answer did not surprise me, my response to the class did: “Let’s dig into that a bit. Why do so many of us in the room hate poetry?” And I began to collect their ideas on the whiteboard (T. Polasek, personal narrative, February 2022) .  \nUnderstanding Curriculum as a Verb  \nCurrere  \nCurriculum is not just  \nthe what of teaching and learning, but a form of experience; not only a noun but also a Verb,  \nThe focus changes to Experiences and to Questions: What is it like to be a teacher  \nand to teach?  \nWhat do subjects and their content mean  \nfor students? What does learning look like  \nin everyday experiences? How should we respond to changing contexts  \nof life  \ndiversity  \ngender  \nculture  \nlanguage? (found poem inspired by Skuce, 2022, p. 2)  \nMy Poetic Past  \n“As the past becomes, the present is revealed.”  \n(Pinar, 1994, p. 22) .  \nFor Mrs. Gellner (my Grade 2 teacher)  \nI was your favourite student that year And (that is to say)  \nYou made me feel extra-special.  \nThe gift of a notebook (the spark)  \nThe encouragement and interest you showed in my p","cbCaighZTC0UCI7u","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaighZTC0UCI7u","pdf",181732,"English","# Hating Poetry\n## Understanding Curriculum as a Verb\n### Currere\n## My Poetic Past\n## Distill and Be Still in the Present","[{\"question\":\"What method does the paper use to explore poetry teaching and learning?\",\"answer\":\"It uses poetic inquiry combined with Pinar’s method of currere to interpret and reflect on understanding through unlearning.\"},{\"question\":\"How does currere structure the author’s reflective process?\",\"answer\":\"The paper works through the four steps of currere: the regressive, the progressive, the analytical, and the synthetical.\"},{\"question\":\"What types of poetry does the author incorporate in the inquiry?\",\"answer\":\"The inquiry uses original poetry, found poetry, and fusion poetry to build a conversation with relevant literature and illustrate changes in understanding.\"}]","“I HATE Poetry!” - Understanding Through Unlearning: A Poetic Inquiry | PDF",15]