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Started this discussion. Last reply by solspiré May. 2, 2009.
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Peter Cole (2006) plays with the spaces between words from an indigenous perspective--through a conversation between Coyote Raven, in a canoe. I like the notion of experimental nooks, ones that provide immersion. I am currently looking at the works…
Thanks for sharing Nicholas. Am struck by the dreamer's landscape as mood, not particular features or topography (p. 10). Kristeva talks about prosody - the spaces between words. I think this is similar to experiential nooks, the parts that provide…
Passing A Strange and Wonderful Curriculum
Notes and comment on Yi-Fu Tuan 1993, Passing Strange and Wonderful
Can one create an e-curriculum, a montage of quotes, via blogging that in turn helps us to consider Canadian curriculum theorizing as so…
Congratulations Nicholas! What a great looking program and collection of people! Wish I could come! All the best!
The final program is now finished. Looking forward to seeing those of you who can make it.
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- I am an assistant professor of curriculum theory at the University of Ottawa who is in turn committed toward a praxis concerned with social justice via community service learning.
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Digital Technologies: A Strange and Wonderful Curriculum
Passing A Strange and Wonderful Curriculum
Notes and comment on Yi-Fu Tuan 1993, Passing Strange and Wonderful
Can one create an e-curriculum, a montage of quotes, via blogging that in turn helps us to consider Canadian curriculum theorizing as something strange and wonderful, both at the same time? How might we engage such ditigal performances?
The penalty for poor performance is not a dock in pay or social ostracism, but rather the nagging feeling of having missed a cue—of a certain awkward… Continue
Notes and comment on Yi-Fu Tuan 1993, Passing Strange and Wonderful
Can one create an e-curriculum, a montage of quotes, via blogging that in turn helps us to consider Canadian curriculum theorizing as something strange and wonderful, both at the same time? How might we engage such ditigal performances?
The penalty for poor performance is not a dock in pay or social ostracism, but rather the nagging feeling of having missed a cue—of a certain awkward… Continue
Posted on July 6, 2009 at 9:02pm — 2 Comments
A Curricular Train Ride
Teachers need to be learners who engage in the learning process for themselves, are willing to refine their thinking and practice, to listen to each other as they formulate ideas and understandings, and are open to learn from errors. (Lock, 2006, pp. 668-669)
Toot! Toot! Toot! A kid at the front of the cart yells at the train’s horn, “Be quiet! BE QUIET!” I am on my way this morning to downtown Toronto to meet up with my wife and two sons. Three weeks is way too long to go without seeing them—n… Continue
Toot! Toot! Toot! A kid at the front of the cart yells at the train’s horn, “Be quiet! BE QUIET!” I am on my way this morning to downtown Toronto to meet up with my wife and two sons. Three weeks is way too long to go without seeing them—n… Continue
Posted on September 11, 2008 at 9:37am — 1 Comment
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- At 8:09am on May 16, 2008,
Nicholas Ng-A-Fook said…
- Sorry it has taken so long to get back to you. I am in Wasaga Beach and my technological connections to the WWW are quite slow (dial-up). So the public library is my current plug-in to this virtual reality. I am currently working with the concepts of "migrancy," "shifting cultural hybridities" if there is such a thing, "curriculum of place/curriculum theory,"
"environment," "sustainability," "appropriation/exappropriation" and "indigenous conceptualization of citizenship" in relation to "empire." Immigrant Acts has been usefull for me in this endeavor. I wonder what happens when we take a heading, heading toward the "other" which in turn attemtps to conceptualize the concept of hybridity, that situates its theorization within a racialized framework--genetic/eugenic conceptualization? Clearly this is not what you are suggesting. But your statement below provokes suh wonderings and their respective questioning. How have nation states worked (historically/politically) such as the United States and Canada among others to reduce hybrid/multiple identities of migrant workers for example to "static/essentialized" racialized identities in order to profit from their labour--I am thinking of Lou Dobbs here. I agree that genetic theory is much more complicated than a reductionist version of it. RNA transcription for example is always at risk of making mistakes when replicating our respective DNA coding for example. Such mistakes afford opportunities for creativity within our very genetic makeup. I guess my question is (A Derridean one)...how might we exappropriate other conceptualizations of hybridity while we attempt to situate it as an interdisciplinary concept? I am not sure what the answers are. But, this might be fun to explore.
- At 8:02am on May 14, 2008,
lilliodillo said…
- How hybrid am I?
That question makes me think about animal husbandry (please forgive my humble anecdote, I grew up on a farm). I think I would be an F2 hybrid a/r/tographer since my parents were both artists, researchers, and teachers. My parents both chose education without a familial precedence, therefore they would be the F1's (Mendel is rolling over in his grave now). They were both writers. My mother taught english as a second language (ESL) and reading to high school students. My father was a history/government professor. I avoided teaching for a bit. I briefly worked as a graphic designer, but I realized that I needed to create with people, not just for them.
Back to the husbandry illustration, your question also made me think of hybrid vigor (click here for more about that) I wonder if I have less strength as a hybrid due to my parental examples? I'd like to think that a/r/tography and genetics are both more complex than that.
So to answer your question, I think I am hybrid enough to still have distinct characteristics of each discipline still perceptible, yet all working together somehow. The question that currently fuels my dreams at night and my photography by day is wondering what role my own hybridity will have on future educators I work with. Is there a homogenizing factor? Will we all be hybrid educators in this postmodern world? I think the rarity will become the strict disciplinary educator. It seems more challenging to avoid hybridity in this interdisciplinary climate. What do you think?
- At 11:27pm on May 13, 2008,
Nicholas Ng-A-Fook said…
- I just came back from a community service learning trip with some B.Ed. Students. We went to Raceland Louisiana to work with largest Franco-aboriginal community down there. The trip was amazing and life changing for those students. We are in the midst of putting together a newsletter both for our own website as well as an article for LSU's newsletter. As soon as things calm down at my end, I will add a story I learned about wild crawfish and its relationship to the United Houma Nation and their conception of community service learning--which I must say is an integral part of their everyday formal and informal school curriculum.
- At 5:11pm on May 13, 2008,
- Community service learning is the key to art education program sustainability, I think. I look forward to what you have to say!
- At 7:17pm on May 9, 2008,
solspiré said…
- Welcome Nicholas! So glad to have you join us! I have been intrigued by your work for a while and like your work on acknowleding indigenous knowing. Looking forward to you starting and/or contributing to our sublation dialogue. Best regards.
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