I was looking forward to Chapter 24: Taiko Drums and Sushi, Perogies and Sauerkraut: Mirroring a Half-Life in Multicultural Curriculum from a talk in 1990 by Ted Aoki, from the text Curriculum in a New Key – The Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki, and finally read it today. What excited me were the terms […]
Read more "A Tensioned Space with Cabbage"Chapter 19: âLanguage, Culture, and CurriculumâŠâ that is a paper presented by Ted Aoki and Ken Jacknicke in 2000, from the text Curriculum in a New Key – The Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki. The chapter is filled with ideas that tie together many concepts from the larger text, and today, I am thinking […]
Read more "Signifiers as a String of Wool"As a student in the Master of Educational Technology program at UVIC, I found chapter 5 âToward Understanding âComputer Applicationââ in the book Curriculum in a New Key – The Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki, an interesting place to dwell for the afternoon. In my classes, we have talked about the meaning of educational […]
Read more "Online Teacher = Orderer"Today I read the chapter, âSonare and Videre: A Story, Three Echoes and a Lingering Noteâ from a keynote address in 1990, as I continue to read Curriculum in a New Key – The Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki. The chapter brought me back to a place in time when I intentionally connected my […]
Read more "Rhythms of the Earth"Today, I am thinking about the word âinspiritedâ helps me think differently, after reading the text, âSpinning Inspirited Images in the Midst of Planned and Live(d) Curriculaâ written by Ted Aoki. I am reminded of an intricate spiderâs web, fastened between this and that. I included in this post a photo of a spiderâs web […]
Read more "An Inspirited Web"One idea in Aokiâs writing that resonates with my experience teaching is his insight on the space between curriculum-as-plan and the lived curriculum. I am thinking specifically about how Aoki explains that things can grow in this space. When reading the description, my mind immediately thought of a space called the boundary layer where mosses […]
Read more "The Boundary Layer"Â Ted Aokiâs chapter âImaginaries of âEastâ and âWestâ: Slippery Curricular Signifiers in Educationâ from the book Curriculum in a New Key – The Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki, asked me today to stop and ponder every day and overlooked in a new way. The chapter delves quickly and deeply into abstractions that ask […]
Read more "A Space of “This” and “That”"Today I read the chapter âLayered voices in teaching: The uncannily correct and the elusively trueâ from Curriculum in a New Key – The Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki, while listening to the splashing of my garden pond. I planned to sit outside on this beautiful summer morning to ground myself in a thoughtful […]
Read more "Connection to Heart"Today, I read âUnderstanding Curriculum Amidst Doing Curriculum Researchâ by my professor at UVIC, Dr. Jennifer Thom. In class, we were thinking about where we are as a person, learner, and/or teacher, and where we could be. We started thinking about key experiences in our lives that shaped who we are and about what ideas […]
Read more "Invisible Connections?"After reading Chapter 20, âReflections of a Japanese Canadian Teacher Experiencing Ethnicityâ from Curriculum in a New Key, I was reminded of my family history as a settler in Canada. I related to the idea of viewing my life not in a âmonovisionâ (Pinar & Irwin, 347) and not even in a double vision as […]
Read more "Branches and Roots of a Family Tree"