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Deep Diversity in Education for Young People
Sponsor teachers re-creating their selves and the cost to children
Decades ago, in an environmental geography class, the professor talked about what happens within the meeting-space of two different ecosystems: where prairies meet mountains, or ocean meets the shore. He demonstrated how such places have more life-forms — flora and fauna — than each individual system, and as a result are more diverse, vigorous, and dynamic.
While I don’t remember much else about that class, that piece has stayed with me; it is analogous to so much else in life, be it a shelf filled with books from all continents, a band with a dozen musicians instead of a trio (I remember a large band in Austin, with a full-size harp next to a clarinet and electric guitar), food with a long list of ingredients… Life is short, and there is so much to be enjoyed and learned. Bring it on!
We need to go deeply into diversity and explore guts, minds, and hearts.
A Bachelor of Education in my mid-forties
I decided to give up teaching post-secondary as an underpaid contract teacher and move on to a Bachelor of Education program. My thinking was that I could add my voice to writing instruction, as someone who had published children’s…