Welcome to the Journey!

CI 550 has been conceived as a journey for those interested in schooling, curriculum, pedagogy, teaching & learning. What may come as a surprise, however, is that the journey will NOT be one characterized by “academic distance” or purely “intellectual inquiry.” Rather, on our journey it will be necessary to engage our own experiences, beliefs, identities, and hopes. While inquiring into our own hearts, minds, practices, etc., we will make every effort to co-create a learning community.

This learning community—focusing on issues related to contemporary school curriculum—aims to be one that is supportive, affirming, challenging, and inquisitive. Through community, then, the hope is that you will experience hospitality and safety as each explores her/his own questions, to find one’s own meanings, and, ultimately, to allow oneself to be opened, even transformed.