This article presents ideas about curriculum as a process in which people come
together on an equal footing to explore ideas about how they might live and draw
up plans about how they might do so. This is a negotiated process that recognizes
the need of all to speak and be listened to, recognizing the historically constituted
nature of social situations in different traditions, each with its own sets of culturally
specific norms. Curriculum may then be seen as a process of everyday enquiry
that may be conducted anywhere and by anyone, grounded in and informed by
everyday practices