In this section you will find a collection of personal blog entries born directly out of the course work and thinking in The EdD Transformational Change program. Not all work is represented within these pages. Rather, some works have been chosen based on the level to which they have contributed to my thinking and refining of research interests. Additionally, each work connects to the larger deduced themes of each course - Carolyn's 'pearl necklace' approach. I have illustrated the course themes here:
EdD Transformational Change Course Themes
— Mar 2, 2013
Reclaiming Innocent
Based on the Archetypes, we were challenged to reclaim some innocence... my inspiration came from my youngest son...
— Jul 2, 2012
Art - What makes you sticky?
One of the assignments in our Education 908 class with Charles Scott and Suzy O’Neil asked us to enter into the artistic space and create a work that might inherently bring both artist and observer into a dialogical realm...
— Jun 4, 2012
Curriculum in everything?
OK, I’ve had a week … it’s actually quite hard to describe, but let me do so with the foreshadowing that I am asking myself – now that the week is past – is there a curriculum in my experiences?
— May 28, 2012
Perspective and worldview
Following the many wonderful perspectives and dialogues in our cohort regarding the role of nature as or in curriculum, it got me thinking further…
— May 27, 2012
Social Construction
Continuing my thinking on positioning of personal perspective which truly informs, and in some ways dictates, our social construction of reality, I recalled a poem...
— Mar 20, 2013
Dialogue on Dialogue
Dialogue has many layers. Onions have many layers. Onions inspired this dialogue, which turned out to be truly generative!
— Mar 23, 2013
Designing A Learning Environment
Curriculum Theory - Designing A Learning Environment - Moodle
— Jun 13, 2012
On Designing Success
A FAVOURITE clip for me ... I WISH educators would embrace this concept (in the clip)... from Disney's "Meet the Robinsons" (2007)
— Aug 7, 2012
Curriculum Toolkit
A group project on developing a curriculum toolkit for the 911 course
— Oct 23, 2012
Where Philosophical Purposes Clash
This week, our cohort experienced a time of heavy emotion, cultural conviction, and maligned core concerns... People, I believe, felt as though they could not be heard - so they repeated their positions louder. While responding to the lack of being...
