The Ecological Heart of Teaching

Foreword: Not Just as We Please, or by Choice: A Meditation on What It Means to Make a Difference xv David Geoffrey Smith Chapter One: Introduction 1 Jackie Seidel and David W. Jardine Chapter Two: We Went Once Around the Sun: Some Notes on the Origins and Organization of This Book 5 Jackie Seidel and David W. Jardine Chapter Three: From What Does Ethical Relationality Flow? An Indian Act in Three Artifacts 10 Dwayne Donald Chapter Four: Successful Assimilation 17 Lesley Tait Chapter Five: A Pedagogy of Panic 19 Carli Molnar Chapter Six: A Better Place 22 Sandra McNeil Chapter Seven: All Beings Are Your Ancestors: A Bear Sutra on Ecology, Buddhism and Pedagogy (1997) 28 David W. Jardine Chapter Eight: Relearning Freedom: Advice to a New Teacher 31 Margeaux Montgomery Chapter Nine: Matches 33 Deirdre Bailey Chapter Ten: A Modern Hunting Tradition 37 Jodi Latremouille Chapter Eleven: “You Need Accuracy”: An Appreciation of a “Modern Hunting Tradition” 43 David W. Jardine Chapter Twelve: Advice to New Teachers 45 Scott Hassett Chapter Thirteen: Beckoning 47 Jennifer Gray Chapter Fourteen: Remembering Mr. Routhier 48 Lesley Tait Chapter Fifteen: Teaching Everything 51 Karen Schweighardt Chapter Sixteen: Blossom Everlasting: A Meditation 53 David Geoffrey Smith Chapter Seventeen: Timed Beings 56 Khatleen Alnas Chapter Eighteen: In My Timid Voice 57 L. A. James (a.k.a. Lisa Menzies) Chapter Nineteen: My Brother 61 Scott Hassett Chapter Twenty: Advice to a New Teacher 65 Ian Walsh Chapter Twenty-One: Meditations on Contemplative Pedagogy as Sanctuary 66 Jackie Seidel Chapter Twenty-Two: Thoughts and Aspirations for a New Teacher 72 Stephanie Bartlett Chapter Twenty-Three: Dear New Teacher 75 Towani Duchscher Chapter Twenty-Four: Henry 77 Miranda Hector Chapter Twenty-Five: A Little Uprising 79 Paul Le Marquand Chapter Twenty-Six: (Here Is) Where You Are Supposed to Be 82 Jessica Kelly Chapter Twenty-Seven: River Otters and Such 84 Judson Innes Chapter Twenty-Eight: My Teacher Supply List 87 Karen Schweighardt Chapter Twenty-Nine: Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome 89 Carli Molnar Chapter Thirty: Echolocations 100 Jackie Seidel, David W. Jardine, Deirdre Bailey, Holly Gray, Miranda Hector, Judson Innes, Carole Jones, Tanya Kowalchuk, Neelam Mal, Jennifer Meredith, Carli Molnar, Peter Rilstone, Trish Savill, Kari Sirup, Lesley Tait, Lisa Taylor, and Darren Vaast Chapter Thirty-One: Chasing Calmness 119 Lori Bonanno Chapter Thirty-Two: Tortuga 121 Deirdre Bailey Chapter Thirty-Three: Conversation 122 Stephanie Bartlett Chapter Thirty-Four: Dear New Teacher 124 Derek Lawson Chapter Thirty-Five: Nani 126 Neelam Mal Chapter Thirty-Six: On Witches and Kites 128 Hannah Blades Chapter Thirty-Seven: It Is All Love 135 Lauren Sele Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Typewriter 138 Kirsten Varner Chapter Thirty-Nine: Curriculum Artifact: Guided Reading Table 142 Jackie Seidel Chapter Forty: New Stories and Roles 147 Elisa Rapisarda Chapter Forty-One: Too Young for an Identity Crisis 149 Kyria Pires Chapter Forty-Two: From Darkness to Light: Observations From Inside the Linoleum Cavern 151 Kate Schutz Chapter Forty-Three: Hypocrite 153 Jodi Latremouille Chapter Forty-Four: Two Young Fish 155 Deirdre Bailey Chapter Forty-Five: Whisking Away the Table 157 Towani Duchscher Chapter Forty-Six: Spontaneous Learning 158 Paul Le Marquand Chapter Forty-Seven: “I Love the Terror in a Mother’s Heart” 161 David W. Jardine Chapter Forty-Eight: Dear Adam’s Teacher 163 Lisa Taylor Chapter Forty-Nine: Remembrances of the Land and Rocks in My Pocket 166 Lesley Tait Chapter Fifty: Fish Bones in the Trees 168 Erin Quinn Chapter Fifty-One: Let’s Take a Journey 170 Kirsten Varner Chapter Fifty-Two: Old Dog, Same Trick 172 David W. Jardine Chapter Fifty-Three: Thoughts on Being Neither Finished nor Unfinished 175 Megan Liddell Chapter Fifty-Four: There Is Only This Farm 177 Scott Hassett Chapter Fifty-Five: How to Love Black Snow 180 David W. Jardine Chapter Fifty-Six: Bee & Nothingness 187 Michael W. Derby Chapter Fifty-Seven: Turning In/wards 195 Jodi Latremouille Chapter Fifty-Eight: Radiant Beings 198 Kari Sirup Chapter Fifty-Nine: Additional Thoughts on the Terror in a Mother’s Heart: An Allegorical/Pedagogical Speculation on the Economies of Knowledge 199 David W. Jardine Chapter Sixty: Josh 202 Scott Hassett Chapter Sixty-One: Curriculum Theorizing 205 Jackie Seidel Chapter Sixty-Two: Interview With the Gym Hall Water Fountain 206 Ian Walsh Chapter Sixty-Three: Beyond the Outfield Fence 209 Judson Innes Chapter Sixty-Four: American Dippers and Alberta Winter Strawberries 212 David W. Jardine Chapter Sixty-Five: Advice to a New Teacher 217 Kirsten Varner Chapter Sixty-Six: Girls, Go Close the Doors! 219 Neelam Mal Chapter Sixty-Seven: So Many Voices 221 Scott Hassett Chapter Sixty-Eight: An Ode to Xmas Present 225 David W. Jardine Chapter Sixty-Nine: Dear Cohort 228 Ian Walsh Chapter Seventy: An Address 230 Judson Innes Chapter Seventy-One: Becoming Uncongealed 233 David W. Jardine Chapter Seventy-Two: Ode to My Rabbit Teacher 240 Jackie Seidel Chapter Seventy-Three: School Storage Bags: Not as Innocent as They Seem 242 Stephanie Bartlett Chapter Seventy-Four: Teaching, Practice Wisdom: An Invitation to the Banff Centre 244 David W. Jardine and Jackie Seidel Chapter Seventy-Five: “The Path and the Goal” 247 Jackie Seidel and David W. Jardine Bibliography 251 List of Contributors 261