In celebrating a strange anniversary I decided that I needed a new narrative and that I would use my assignment to fulfill this task of reconfiguring various details to create something new.

So far there are three visual aides in my new narrative – a bitterroot poster to talk about educational transformation, a map of Canada to talk about the significance of place, and a map of the brain to talk about personal and social purposes of learning.

I think that I am going to tie this to my diversity learning by creating a paper for diversity class on Aboriginal pedagogy (describe definitions, convergence, divergence, contextualized within the larger issues of diversity and the paradox that is multiculturalism in Canada).

Anyhow, my posters will have defining characteristics of Aboriginal pedagogy located on them… or I will bring it up somehow in my presentation.

Of today’s readings I was really excited to see a cool table on this article on learning theories http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-learn.htm

Instantly I was like, social and situational, that’s me! And then I was like, that’s Aboriginal pedagogy. And then I was like, that’s chapter 4 of the book in our diversity course… there were synapses exploding and connections all over the place and it’s a mess in my head right now but if I can turn it into words and diagrams with labels it will be… exquisite!

I was trained heavily in behaviouralist and cognitive learning theories and I know how to apply them, and I do have humanist tendencies, but my heart it social and situational.

Yes. I have a plan. A messy plan in the early stages of execution, but it feels good to have direction seeing as I have been pondering this road map assignment for some time now.