It’s a lonely thing, writing curriculum. You sit
at your computer and you put your mind into gear and then through some special
kind of magic, all of those years of teaching and learning across cultures
bubbles out through your fingers and you write. You come up with fantastic
activities that link people with content, that increase their skills, that feed
their minds and give new hope, new power.
I wish!
It’s more like – you sit at your computer and
panic a little bit inside because there’s no magic formula for this and you’ve
just been asked to help change the world a little bit. Great opportunity.
Wonderful intention. Good money to top up that PhD scholarship.
And then…you pause. You think about everything
you know about education and about action research. You think, “Why not? This
could be good.”
So you develop what you think is this amazing
approach to writing curriculum that situates the learner at the center, that
embeds everything you know about good Indigenous adult education in Australia,
and you write. You write and you write and you re-write and just maybe you
change the world a little bit.
At least that’s what I hope I did – you might
need to read our paper to see what you think….
Kind regards,
Mel
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