Erika Hasebe-Ludt

Aoksisowaato’op: Place and Story as Organic Curriculum

As a research collective, we have spent the last several years conceptualizing a praxis of metissage that could be applied to curriculum studies in Canada. The usefulness of texts of metissage to the field of curriculum studies is in the ways that they can demonstrate connectivity while also simultaneously re-cognizing difference. By drawing on multiple sources and contexts, creating texts of metissage can provoke a collective wondering regarding the connectedness of history, memory, and story.

The Whole World in One Classroom: Teaching Across Traditions in a Cosmopolitan Environment

This paper reflects on the implications of exploring the intertextual strands of language and culture at work and play in an urban Canadian elementary school classroom in which the author became a teacher researcher. For close to three years, she documented the processes of writing, of action and reflection as part of a hermeneutical inquiry into the lived curriculum of the students and teachers engaged in working with culturally diverse texts and in becoming actors in the multiple plays of language for the purpose of both local and global communications.

These Tensioned Places of Teaching: Life Writing in Precarious Cosmopolitan Times

This article features the creative collaborative research of university researchers and practicing teachers who are engaged in an ongoing inquiry concerned with rewriting literacy and pedagogy in Canadian cosmopolitan educational contexts. Individual life writing texts are juxtaposed to create print-based and digital stories that embody and resonate with narrative and poetic expressions of pedagogical experiences of living and teaching in tensioned and often precarious places and times. In this research, the authors strive to create dialogues between and across different educational sites and discourses about issues of identity, language and literacy, and the teaching life, with the aim to become more knowledgeable and more empathetic about each others words and worlds.