Concluding Post: An Open Letter to my Students
Our lives are stories, journeys, or taken from the Latin basis of the word curriculum “running” or “a race”. In this race of life, learning, and accounting for what is the curriculum of my life, I want to say thank you to all my students. Thank you for being part of my learning path, and thank you for all that you have taught me. When I think back over the course of my teaching career, even though the title of this blog is “In the Blur”, the memories of the lessons from my students distill into discrete and beautiful memories. Jean McNiff (2012) states, “My story is, however, a story of stories” (p.3). Personally, I can’t think of any truer words to account for a life. So, for my past, present, and future students, think of this letter as my story to you of how I recount and explain my living educational theory to you, and in service of your learning. Alfred North Whitehead wrote, “There is only one subject-matter for education, and that is Life in all its manif