Looking for Home- Cynthia Chambers
It is the way people identify themselves based on their backgrounds, experiences, and beliefs.
What is identity?
The word "currere" in terms of curriculum, derived from Latin, means this.
What is "to run the course"?
This term describes teachers who question mainstream political and social trends.
What is "amateur intellectuals"?
She took a test to prove she was this.
What is gifted?
''So I may not be what I read.''
Who is Chambers?
What are ''past lived experiences''?
Curriculum must include one of these three key components.
It includes objectives, guidelines, and experiences of learning.
He described the role of teachers in a knowledge society.
Who is Edward Said?
The two emotions Holly experienced during her academic journey.
What are doubt and anxiety?
''The method of currere foregrounds the relationship between narrative (life history) and practice and provides opportunities to theorize particular moments in one’s educational history, to dialogue with these moments, and examine possibilities for change.''
Who are Kanu & Glor?
In her analytical phase, she analyzes how her past experiences and one of these three contexts shape her future.
What are social, cultural, and historal contexts?
'Currere' changes the curriculum by making it about these.
What are experiences?
Name a key quality that teachers need to cultivate in students for a knowledge society.
What is creativity?
It was expected of Holly to do this after high school.
What is attend university?
''I still remember how it felt sitting there with the weight of so many expectations pushing down.''
Who is Ogden?
For Cynthia, ______ eases the hunger to belong somewhere.
What is ''writing''?
Teachers can best learn from their students by doing this.
What is listening to their thoughts and feelings?
What does the author claim is the eroding of curricula and that does not consider individual student needs?
What is "soul-less standardization"?
She does this before meeting her teacher candidates.
What is put on a kettle to share tea?
''The concept of currere focuses on the individual, acknowledging that each of us is different.''
Who is Pinar?
Cynthia quotes, ''Part of the difficulty is that to live and work in a faculty of education, one is expected to have a _______, and wear it with confidence.''
What is ''label''?
It means talking about deep or complex ideas together.
What is a "complicated conversation"?
These are the four steps of the currere method.
What is regressive, progressive, analytical, or synthetical?
She prefers this type of learning environment.
What is a practical environment?
''It is impossible to see the direction of experience without reflecting on what the teacher brings to the experience from their past.''
Who are Kanu & Glor?