Link #2: What’s in your bag? – Kelcie Vouk

by markpepe

Kelcie’s What’s on my kitchen table? Task

I made a connection with Kelcie’s task when I read “many of the objects speak to who we are as people…interspersed with passion work…and connections to important people and places.” I only realized how significant the objects in my bag are once I did this task. Those Italian text books represent me passing on my knowledge of that language and culture because of all the past experiences I had being raised in an Italian household, studying it in high school and university, learning it thoroughly for opera, and using the language while studying music in Italy. Reflecting on this, I made a connection to one of the New London Groups components of pedagogy, situated practice. That Italian books draw from my personal life-worlds of being in the communities of educators, musicians, and of my familial heritage; “their boundaries become more evidently complex and overlapping” (New London Group, 1996).

While working on this Linking Assignment I can’t help but think of the design of Task 1. I feel that it is exemplary of designs of meaning. In this case, we are looking at artefacts that we carry on our persons everyday, and each of those artifacts connect to the “complex systems of people, environments, technology, beliefs, and texts” (p. 73). I look at these artefacts now with a deeper more significant meaning.

References

  • Cazden, C., Cope, B., Kalantzis, M., Luke, A., Luke, C., Nakata, M., & New London Group. (1999;1996;). A pedagogy of multiliteracies designing social futures. In B. Cope, & M. Kalantzis (Eds.), Harvard educational review (pp. 19-46). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203979402-6