ABSTRACT

Contemplating Curriculum takes up world-renowned curricular scholar, teacher, and mentor Ted T. Aoki’s invitation to contemplate where curriculum scholars situate themselves in their work. At the same time it probes into the historical and present conditions that make it both possible and impossible to attend to this work in classrooms and communities in mindful, embodied, and aesthetic ways, both locally and globally. The book offers a strong representative sampling of contemporary thinking in the field with a focus on contemplative approaches to curriculum. In their theorizing, contributors call on literary and other mixed-genre formats, such as creative nonfiction, poetry, and essay. They acknowledge the importance of intergenerational dialogue and recognize the importance of time and place in curricular, pedagogical, and personal sense-making. These written and visual texts invite contemplation on notions of curriculum, both planned and lived, in an Aokian spirit of intertextuality.

part |58 pages

Weaving Genealogies

chapter |3 pages

A Day in the Life of Ted Aoki

chapter |8 pages

Regarding Ted Aoki

On Love and Learning to Listen in the Curriculum Studies Field

chapter |4 pages

As Neither/Both Teds

Theodore Reflects Upon Tetsuo

chapter |5 pages

Curriculum Cool

chapter |7 pages

Calling Upstream/Dream

chapter |7 pages

Waiting for My Son's Call

Invitation to Contemplate Possible/Impossible

chapter |5 pages

Apprenticing with Ted

part |67 pages

Lingering With Times, Dwelling in Places

chapter |7 pages

Five Petals of Thought Fall on Broken Ground

To Walk With Ted Aoki

chapter |6 pages

This Park Has Snakes

chapter |8 pages

Evolving Inside the Landscape

Fireweed Phenology

chapter |10 pages

Living Pedagogy … Cracks and In-Betweens

The Messy of Landscapes and Languages

chapter |5 pages

Haraam

chapter |7 pages

Paleographies of Aokian Discourse

A Genealogy of Border Pedagogies and Generative Possibilities

part |72 pages

Living the Topos

chapter |5 pages

Cultivating an Aesthetic Sensibility in Curricular Spaces

Five Aesthetic Moments

chapter |8 pages

The Question of Community

Community in Question 1

chapter |3 pages

Find a Space in Between for Intercultural Adaptation

My Curriculum Cookbook and Ted Aoki

chapter |9 pages

In the Discipline of … Wind

chapter |6 pages

Lived Experiences of Loss

Living Perceptibly as a Teacher in New Familiarities

chapter |11 pages

Contemplating A Canadian Curriculum Theory Project

Currere, Denkbild, and Intellectual Genealogies

chapter |16 pages

Contemplating and Complicating Curriculum by Attending to Language

Twenty-Six Metonymic Moments