Today I read the chapter, “Sonare and Videre: A Story, Three Echoes and a Lingering Note” 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 “inspirited” helps me think differently, after reading the text, “Spinning Inspirited Images in the Midst of Planned and Live(d) Curricula” written by Ted Aoki. I am reminded of an intricate spider’s web, fastened between this and that. I included in this post a photo of a spider’s web […]
Read more "An Inspirited Web"One idea in Aoki’s 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" Ted Aoki’s chapter “Imaginaries of “East” and “West”: Slippery Curricular Signifiers in Education” 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 “Layered voices in teaching: The uncannily correct and the elusively true” 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 “Understanding Curriculum Amidst Doing Curriculum Research” 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, “Reflections of a Japanese Canadian Teacher Experiencing Ethnicity” 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 “monovision” (Pinar & Irwin, 347) and not even in a double vision as […]
Read more "Branches and Roots of a Family Tree"Winter is coming to an end, and I find myself reflecting on the frosty mornings and moonlight evenings when sailing on the water taxi these past months. Winter is a wild time to travel by boat to school. There are many windy days where sailings are canceled. There are also icy mornings with frost-kissed docks […]
Read more "Winter on the Sea: Online Learning vs. Face-to-Face"The learning theory of constructivism best describes my beliefs as a teacher and what I focus on whenever possible when I am working directly with students and planning lessons. A text that I found useful to place my understanding of constructivism in the field of online teaching was a chapter called Foundations of Educational Theory for […]
Read more "Constructivism and Online Teaching"When I think about my favorite structured learning experience, I think about two classes that I took as part of my undergraduate degree. They were called IDEA 3100 and IDEA 4100. IDEA stands for Interdisciplinary Expressive Arts. Both classes were taught by the same person, Ross Laird, who is to this day, one of my […]
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