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Congratulations to David Jardine, Pat Clifford and Sharon Friesen for their Division B Book Award. They will be presenting at various sessions and be presented with the award at the 2005 Annual Meeting in Montreal Quebec.
"David Jardine, Patricia Clifford and Sharon Friesen probe the metaphors and models that buttress our use of 'the basics' in curriculum design, implementation and evaluation in Back to the Basics of Teaching and Learning. They begin dissatisfied with a common image of 'breaking things down, fragmentation, isolation, and the consequent dispensing, manipulation, and control of the smallest, simplest, most meaningless bits and pieces of the living inheritances that are entrusts to teachers and learners in schools,' arguing that the designation of such things as 'basics' is a deeply ethical decision regarding what comes first, what is valued, and what will count in the lives of the students and teachers in the work of schooling. Their series of essays imagines a very different set of basics: relation, ancestry, commitment, participation, interdependence, belonging, desire, conversation, memory, place, topography, tradition, inheritance, experience, identity, difference, renewal, generativity, intergenerationality, discipline, care, strengthening, attention, devotion, transformation, character. As Canadian authors, Jardine, Clifford and Friesen provide a different North American counterpoint to the US voices often represented in the books honoured by Division B. They point to common international concerns with curriculum practice as identifying that which is of most worth - in their case, basic to all 'good' teaching and learning. The committee noted that the authors demonstrate what teaching, living and researching interpretively looks like in classrooms, in texts and theory, in homes, and in the researchers lives." — Book Award Committee
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