This volume highlights lived experiences, personal inspirations, and motivations, which have generated scholarship, and influenced the research and teaching of scholars in the field of curriculum studies.

Gifts, Grace, and Gratitude: An Introduction 1. I am Grateful for Every Invitation 2. Worlding Gifts, Grace and Gratitude: A Posthuman Pedagogy of Art, Affect and Belonging 3. The Way of Gratitude 4. When Curriculum Disrupts: A Case for Gratitude after Decades of Being Surprised 5. Serendipity 6. The Labyrinth of Gratitude: A Collage of Memories, Reflections and Gifts in Learning and Teaching 7. Opening to Grace: Curricular Knowing as Spiritual Praxis 8. Pedagogical Resonances: A Curriculum of Care 9. The Butterfly Catcher 10. Aporias: Geo-metrons Sounding in the Silence of the Void 11. Dear Carl: A Letter of Gratitude for the Gifts of Education 12. Love in the Time of Covid-19: Contemplating the Gifts, Grace and Gratitude of Carl Leggo as Living with Intellectual Passion 13. The Magic Time: Indigenous Influences on Pedagogies Linking the Past with the Future 14. A Curriculum Journey Inspired by Picturebooks 15. (Re)membering Indigenous Curriculum Theorists: Gifts and Gratitude 16. On my Knees: Embracing Adoption to Understand Curriculum 17. Gratitude, Living, and Left Together... 18. Coming into Being, Again and Again and Again 19. From A Steel Town Down: Gifts, Grace, and Gratitude 20. Revisiting Place: The Gift of Lingering in a Curricular Legacy