Greetings and salutations!

In our first episode of December, we’re exploring personal curricula. I dare say we’re individuating rampantly, if not rambunctiously even as the winter solstice, aka the shortest day of the year draws ever closer! Please join us below, as per your preferences!

We’re rising in the digital East and setting in the digital West! #ednontech

You, us, and this audio in perpetual perpetuity! #ednontech

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And I will go, on ahead free
There’s a light yet to be found
The last pale light in the west #ednontech

The 160 freshmen and sophomores at Goucher College follow no less than 114 different personal curricula.

Staff, M. C. (1939). Maine Campus March 13 1939.

The group considered that perhaps “core” curricula might have different procedures from those of enrichment or personal curricula. As the student achieves maturity in conventional schooling or sets objectives in a program of continuing education, it must.be assumed that a complete range of choice – and responsibility – must be allowed for.

Dubois, S. (1972). Relevance in the Curriculum. Ontario Association for Curriculum Development Annual Conference (21st, Toronto, Ontario, November 9-11, 1972).

Inquiry into technology is integral to personal relevance curricula for the following, and other reasons:

Students are free to develop, or are active in helping define their own curricula based on their personal problems, developmental levels, goals, interests, curiosities, capabilities, and needs.

Petrina, S. (1992). Curriculum change in technology education: A theoretical perspective on personal relevance curriculum designs.

These are also questions that demand that the inquirer seek not a safe and self-serving objectivity, but rather engage in the “ethics of self-accountability” (Miller, 2011). It was this self-accountability that we sought in this article as we examined how our personal curriculum remained in the shadow of the colonial socialization of our lives. 

Sawyer, R. D., & Liggett, T. (2012). Shifting positionalities: A critical discussion of a duoethnographic inquiry of a personal curriculum of post/colonialism. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 11(5), 628-651.

The word ‘curriculum’ originally refers to the course to progress along or the pathway to follow (currere meaning “to run/to proceed”) 

… awkward, unhelpful and erroneous concepts such as ‘informal’, ‘non-formal’ learning have entered and become established within the global educational lexicon.  

Billett, S. (2023). The personal curriculum: conceptions, intentions and enactments of learning across working life. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 42(5), 470-486. Chicago

Curricula 

How can we determine the values of self education, lifelong learning, and personal curricula?

Ruminations on the messaging

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With a screw loose

Well, I ain’t that much worse than the rest
I’m just that much further west #ednontech