摘要: I begin with reference to the conference theme that inspired this chapter: “An Uncommon Countenance: Provoking Past, Present, and Future Perspectives within Canadian Curriculum Studies.” find concept of “an uncommon countenance” as suggested by William Pinar (2008)and subsequently picked up organizers, be an extremely important, timely, a provocative problematique for us curriculum scholars engage together. However, I’m also simultaneously curious cautious about how suggestion “uncommon is interpreted understood. What at stake indenoting uncommonness in our curricular considerations? My concern isthat condition being “uncommon” might misunderstood affiliated celebrations diversity, difference, cosmopolitanism sometimes operate axiological void, thus provide little meaningful guidance on proceed.1