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Book SynopsisTeaching and learning are profoundly personal experiences, yet systems of education often prioritize agendas that alienate people rather than engage them. Reconceptualizing teaching and learning as a co-constructed praxis places individuals at the heart of education and, in so doing, regards knowledge acquisition as a process of understanding that is dynamically and personally negotiated at the intersection of self, subject, and relationality. This approach, at once pedagogical and practical, has the capacity to transform the classroom from a place of containment to one of expansiveness. Through critical, qualitative, creative, and arts-integrated approaches, this collection aims to explore the co-curricular capacity of lived experience to re/humanize education. This is a timely project given the multiple race, health, environmental, and socio-political crises playing out on the world stage. Contributions include works by authors who explore: co-curricular inclusion of lived experience for its potential to create more equitable and representative curricula; co-curricular capacity of lived experience to advance relationality, both human and more than human; and co-curricular potential of lived experience to un/privilege the current prioritization of the quantifiable in favour of more inclusive and holistic epistemologies.
Table of ContentsForeword Connie Blomgren Notes on Contributors 1 Nesting with/in the Bloom Ellyn Lyle and Celeste Snowber 2 (Re)storying Education Kathryn Crawford, Joshua Hill, Dani Dykema, Evan Hiltermann, Hailey Tata and Jon Wong 3 Empty Courtyards Sepideh Mahani 4 Being and Becoming Human in Higher Education: A Co-Autoethnographic Inquiry Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, Daisy Pillay and Inbanathan Naicker 5 Preciousness and Duty: Thoughts on the Pedagogy of Expansive Containment David W. Jardine 6 On the Condition of Being Human: Holistic and Relational Curricular and Pedagogical Thinking Shannon Leddy 7 Photo Walks to Re/humanize Education Christine L. Cho, Julie K. Corkett and Olivia Pitcher 8 Healing the School(ed) Girl Within: Toward a Deschooled Currere for Becoming Teacher Educators Chelsea Thomas 9 Refusing to Hide the Ragged Edges: Toward a Humanized Curriculum of Wide-Awakeness Momina Khan 10 Bitter Toughness Meets Fierce Love: Reflections on a Project with Teen Mothers Kathryn Ricketts, Esther Maeers and Riley Munro 11 Articulating an Arts-Based Language Pedagogy Adriana Oniță 12 Unpacking the Equity Backpack Project: Implications for Rehumanizing Education Awneet Sivia, Nerlap Kaur Sidhu and Ian Levings 13 Re/spiriting Education: Fostering Flourishing through W(h)olism Paula Rosehart and Ramona Elke 14 “Who Feels It Knows It”: Black Mothers’ Resistance of Anti-Black Racism in North American K–12 Schools Michelle Grace-Williams 15 Participatory Theatre: Towards Humane Encounters in Education and Professional Development Joe Norris, Kevin Hobbs, Michael Martin Metz, Valerie Michaelson and Sheila O’Keefe-McCarthy 16 Re/humanizing Language Teacher Education: A Muralization Project Andrés Valencia 17 Homeland of the Métis Nation: A Critical Inquiry into the Hidden Curriculum at Winnipeg’s Upper Fort Garry Katya Adamov Ferguson 18 Representation Matters: Creating a Sense of Belonging in Early Childhood Studies Nidhi Menon 19 Finding Humanity, Finding Ourselves: How Our Critical Friendship Reignited Our Desire for Futures in Academia Vusi Msiza, Nosipho Mbatha and Nokukhanya Ndlovu 20 Curriculum-Making through a Mural Mile: Narrating a Social History Rita Forte 21 Rehumanizing the Heart Kimberley Holmes
