Speculative Fiction and Curriculum Theorizing

my longtime friend and colleague in the field, inspired this special issue as a result of one of her presentations that I attended at JCT's Bergamo Conference in Fall 2023(Paraphrased): "We already know that schools will look radically different from the schools we know now, P-16.What role will we play in re-imagining them?"So, we invited curriculum theorists to contribute relatively short, accessible, challenging works of speculative fiction to this special of JCT focused on the following prompt: What impact can speculative fiction have on the process of currere, and how can the process of currere (specifically the progressive phase, accessing the imaginary) inspire curricularists to creatively speculate possible curriculum futures?In answering Morna's question, at least initially, I think that we have an opportunity and a responsibility to imagine the future of education, schooling, and classrooms, to argue for something of value happening in them as change imbues our lives, and to be part of the process.One avenue for participation in that project is to engage in imaginative work, to connect to the power of the progressive step of inquiry that occupies a critically important space in the currere method, and write our speculative futures into existence, at least in words if not in actual action.The pieces in this special issue play with the possibilities of imagination to think into existence the potential for schools, classrooms, lives, to reinvigorate our lives and our polity.This issue, which I'm very proud of, constitutes my first and only content contribution to JCT as editor during my 6-year run as editor.Serving as editor and President of the Foundation for Curriculum Theory, which sponsors the conference and journal, was one of the best experiences of my professional life; thank you to everyone who made the work possible.T