Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (JCACS)
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The Dissonant Duet: An Autoethnography of a Teacher-Student Relationship
No full textIn reading the research available on the topic of teacher-student relationships in learning, it is evident that over the past four centuries very little has changed in traditional, individual music lessons. Through an exploration of the research literature, we came to realize that it is difficult to describe the socioemotional aspects of learning using traditional research methods, and there are many aspects of learning that are beyond explanation in quantitative, realist-styled studies of the efficacy of learning techniques, learning outcomes, evaluation, motivation, literacy, and technical competency. While we began with our inquiry with an interest in studying traditional piano pedagogy, a complex journey led us to using autoethnography as a way to share and demystify a taboo story from the piano studio that extends beyond music learning. Ours is a sensitive story to tell, and the risks involved in discussing this topic in pedagogical contexts have kept many learners silenced for decades. Through this process, we have learned that when autoethnography is considered as a form of pedagogy, it is an evocative way to reveal and describe subjective, yet crucial, aspects of learning
Book Review Frontispiece
No full textThis arts-integrated work, "Branch," reflects the image of the book review as reaching out, connecting to, and sharing ideas
Wilderness, the Body, Poetics, and the Crane: Curriculum in Four Parts
Get PDFWritten as a circuitous reflection on curricular lessons from nature, each of the four parts highlights endangered aspects of learning that if not attended will jeopardize who we are as a species. Attention to wilderness, non-dual consciousness, and the body, along with the centrality of instincts guide part one. Creation myths, wisdom traditions, and the Hermetic arts, including language and play, lead part two while body and nature maintain a necessary yet oft unrecognized container. The wild, poetics, and creativity shape part three, honouring the subtle role of language via the body. Part four brings the crane to the foreground, with its psychological symbolism as well as its anthropological and mythological history, an image to provoke curricular remembering of its ancestral roots. Together the four parts call for awareness to our forgotten bodily relations, as reflected in language and relationships with the natural world and all its life forms, while amplifying the storybird crane
Provoking Curriculum as Pedagogical Imaginaries: Frontispiece
No full textThis arts-integrated work, "Cradle of Consciousness," reflects one of the sub-themes -- Provoking Curriculum as Pedagogical Imaginaries -- of this special issue of JCACS. The theme and title of this special issue is "Canadian Curriculum Studies: A Métissage of Polyphonic Textualities.
Provoking Curriculum as Relational Ecologies: Frontispiece
No full textThis arts-integrated work, "Life Lines," reflects one of the sub-themes -- Provoking Curriculum as Relational Ecologies -- of this special issue of JCACS. The theme and title of this special issue is "Canadian Curriculum Studies: A Métissage of Polyphonic Textualities.
Creative Tensions in Place-Conscious Learning: A Triptych
Get PDFThis article was a keynote address delivered at the Curriculum for the
Bioregion Conference on “Fostering an Ethic of Place,” February 7, 2015
at the University of Puget Sound, in Tacoma, Washington. The Curriculum of
the Bioregion Project, led by Jean MacGregor from The Evergreen State
College, is a consortium of over thirty regional universities in the US and
Canada that engages faculty communities in exploring the issues of
sustainability and place-based learning in a broad array of courses and
disciplines. This address aims to narrate a fluid theorization of place as
curriculum that is responsive to the lived experience of everyday life. It
draws on key moments of learning in the author’s biography and presents
these learnings as three short stories. These stories try to convey and
clarify how a theoretical construct such as place is lived as nuance and
contradiction in everyday life, especially when we open to the experience of
others, human and more-than-human. Fostering an ethic of place, the author
suggests, depends on sensitivity to this nuance and the recognition of
parallax
Book Review: Inspiration and Innovation in Teaching and Teacher Education
Get PDFInspiration and Innovation in Teaching and Teacher Education is an edited book by Karen Goodnough, Gerald Galway, Cecile Badenhorst, and Rob Kelly (2013) presenting a collection of 13 chapters, with three overview chapters in sections titled: “The Essence of Teacher Education”, “Innovative Practices in Teacher Education”, and “Emerging Issues in Teacher Education”. The book serves to remind readers of the history of teacher education as a landscape for new and future endeavors in the field, and it offers current research to address provocative questions related to a profession whose first responsibilities are presented as both political, in terms of the future of democracy, and personal, in terms of students who demonstrate particular values such as a sense of responsibility for themselves, others and the land through sustainability, as well as the skills to live those values. This text is a comprehensive and contemporary read and, as such, is highly recommended for Canadian curriculum scholars and students as well as others interested in the field of Education
A Glitch Pedagogy: Exquisite Error and the Appeal of the Accidental
Get PDFBy experimenting with computer glitches as provocation of accepted norms of user interactions with digital technologies, this paper extends and radicalizes Dewey’s (1934) pedagogical principle of “consummatory experience,” observing computational error, logical accidents, and procedural glitches as creative and productive forces in the lived curriculum. We hold that this troubling of expected outcomes, this disruption of programmed processes which, as a result of incommensurable informational input, result in unique (and educational) by-products, is fundamental to understanding our digital humanity, and that these irregularities convey the same learning potential that learning from mistakes and fortunate accidents do in the arts, sciences, and within the broader context of lifelong learning
A Sensory Experiment into Languages as (R)evolution
Get PDFHow are we informed and transformed by tuning into our relationships to land, emotions, relations, and bodies within our academic pathways into languages? In this paper, we tell a story of our journey, as scholars, into how languages relate to land, historicity, bodies, and the ecosophical concept of ubuntu. Our discussion brings in the temporal and spatial multi-disciplinary lineage of languages, as an open space to re-envision, re-experience, and re-engage with our academic writing in new and ancient ways. We use multimodal layers of language ontology—from ecological, physical, historical, and intercultural perspectives—as a decolonizing, pedagogical process of (re)covering humanness. We use the particular example of academic writing and reading as a sensory experience to dive into languages as ontological ways of becoming human. And because we are academics (or failed magicians) we try to provide insights into theoretical and practical ways to transform this conversation into pedagogy
Provoking Curricula of Care: Weaving Stories of Rupture Towards Repair
Get PDFWe are five scholars of education, provoking curriculum on the topic of “care”—as practice, theory, and struggle, through our stories of living, teaching, and learning. Our inquiries surface threads of rupture, where we find that “care” indicates our efforts to address suffering. Our care-work consists of restorative, creative, and contemplative practices. We tell our stories through a literary métissage (weaving) of creative non-fiction, poetic writing, artwork, and images. We thus creatively expand the meaning of care by evoking our understandings, lived experiences, and practices of caring. In this way, we hope to create more attuned relationships, and open the way for more stories of “care” to emerge