Articles by: Peter Curtis

Author Biography:

Peter Curtis is a school teacher for 23 years, and passionate educator and inclusion advocate committed to redressing social and economic disadvantage. He has taught across a range of classroom and school environments, and integrates knowledge of the human lifespan, and play-based pedagogies into teaching and counselling.

Artefactual Intelligences

Arena Quarterly no.25

Humphrey McQueen, Peter Curtis

Apr 2026

The class struggle turns, therefore, not on what they want, but what they need, indeed, on what they cannot do without if they are to remain parasites. In practice, the question becomes: with what can they get away?

‘Radical’: A film to provoke thinking

Arena Online

Peter Curtis

14 Jun 2024

For those of us who work in education systems, we can only empathise with Sergio who suffers an ‘existential crisis’ from having to teach the curriculum. The effect is soul destroying for both him, and his students.