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Aoksisowaato’op: Place and Story as Organic Curriculum

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Reconsidering Canadian Curriculum Studies

Part of the book series: Curriculum Studies Worldwide ((CSWW))

Abstract

As a research collective, we have spent the last several years conceptualizing a praxis of métissage that could be applied to curriculum studies in Canada. The usefulness of texts of métissage 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 métissage can provoke a collective wondering regarding the connectedness of history, memory, and story.

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Blood, N., Chambers, C., Donald, D., Hasebe-Ludt, E., Head, R.B. (2012). Aoksisowaato’op: Place and Story as Organic Curriculum. In: Ng-A-Fook, N., Rottmann, J. (eds) Reconsidering Canadian Curriculum Studies. Curriculum Studies Worldwide. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137008978_4

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