tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45331363556157587392024-03-05T00:10:31.535-08:00My Auto-EthnographyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533136355615758739.post-4846686045464537762017-03-07T16:24:00.001-08:002020-03-14T16:44:10.284-07:00I am a Columnist!!! <div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I have to confess that this was a dream of mine for quite some time…
even before I started blogging. Of course that by posting my stories on my
blog, I got a little “push” to try something new. So I did; and for the first
time in my life I am writing for a Canadian magazine!!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I sent a proposal to the AirdrieLife Magazine and I was accepted to be
one of their contributors for the portion of the magazine called: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Slice of Life”</i> in the parenting
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">My first article for the AirdrieLife Magazine is called: “<span style="color: #0b0b0b;">How do we teach our children to create their own budget?”
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0b0b0b; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This was an amazing experience that I recommend to all
teachers that like me that enjoy writing and reading.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I already received suggestions for the next topics for my column and I
am writing a few drafts. The magazine only publishes 4 editions per year, one
issue for each season of the year, so, I still have some time to think about my next article until the next
publication’s deadline comes around.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">So, now I am a teacher, an auto-ethnographer and a columnist!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">If you would like to read my article, please visit the website below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Thank you, gracias,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Claudia <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">AirdrieLife Magazine:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <a href="http://airdrielife.com/slice_life/parentlife-5/">http://airdrielife.com/slice_life/parentlife-5/</a></span></div>
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has been already distributed in Airdrie and area. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533136355615758739.post-76601266517891244582017-02-26T09:56:00.000-08:002020-03-14T16:45:10.573-07:00Capstone Exercise... The End is Near :)<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hello everyone,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As I work on my Capstone Exercise, I get that feeling of accomplishment, but at the same time I feel a little nostalgic...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I made so many good friendships throughout this M.Ed. Program and I will miss them! I will miss the discussions, our E-classes, our Adobe conversations. I am not going to miss the assignments though. LOL.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Working on my Capstone Project is making me reflect over these 2,5 years of studies and engagement through U of A. It is interesting to see how much I changed over this period of time and I am not only talking about the weight I have gained. LOL. No, I am talking about how much I have learned and how much of this learning I have put in to my daily teaching practice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am sure <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">t<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">hat </span></span>my students appreciated all the new adventures that we <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">had</span> together!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My grade 2 classes from 2015-2016 and from 2016-2017' </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">school years</span> were my mini lab, where I tested all the language research that I was working on.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Just to name a few projects we have worked on:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- Teachers' ethnography;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- Circle of Courage;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- Translanguaging;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- Transliteracy;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- Blogging;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- Language Acquisition;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- Second Language Learning;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- Neuro-Linguistic Approach, and so many other aspects of learning in the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">E</span>lementary <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">S</span>chool setting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I feel that I finished this journey, I have accomplished my goals and I am ready to fly... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am ready to take on a new challenge, <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a new </span>adventure, a<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> new</span> learning opportunity and so much more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I thank all the people who was part of this journey with me, direct or indirectly, you helped shape who I am today as a teac<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">her an<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">d as a person</span></span> and for that I am thankful!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I will post my Capstone Exercise on this Blog soon...<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Stay <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">tuned :)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As soon as it is graded, I will make it public, so I can share my learning experience in a Graduate Program with all of you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thank you/Gracias,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Claudia Sasse </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Adios :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">I
always believed that in order to effectively teach literacy teachers would need
to use more than one approach, tool or program. This week my belief became
stronger than ever!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After listening to
my classmates’ video-presentations and after reading all of the required
articles for this week, I can say for sure that we need to have some type of
balance when teaching literacy and never rely solely on one specific method or
approach. In his publication on Literacy, Luke (1990) states on pages 7 and 8
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“…But rather that each of these general
families of approaches displays and emphasises particular forms of literacy,
such that no single one will, of itself, fully enable students to use texts
effectively, in their own individual and collective interests, across a range
of discourses, texts and tasks.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Other
important piece that needs to be considered when teaching literacy is the
cultural aspect that students bring with them to the classroom. I loved what
Green (2012) says in his book about the significance that culture ‘brings to
the table’ when producing meanings to the subjects we teach. On page 6, he
argues that: “Subject-area learning is cultural learning; in learning the
subject, one is also learning the culture.” In countries like Canada, USA, and
Australia where the influx of immigrants is very high, attending to the
cultural differences of students is something that we should expect to see as a
norm. Isn’t it? I wonder if that is a common idea amongst educators…(?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">The
four approaches to literacy education summarized by Ludwig (2003) were
something very thought provoking. Even though these ideas do not sound like new
concepts, it was certainly a great reminder of the approaches we will face when
teaching Literacy, such as the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">skills, the personal growth, the cultural heritage, and
the critical-cultural approaches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">What I
found very interesting were the “frameworks” for learning and teaching literacy
that would support the four approaches listed above. Ludwig (2003) presents
them in her article: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">- </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Four
Literacy Resources developed by Peter Freebody and Allan Luke (1990) and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">- </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Three Literacy Dimensions developed by Bill Green
(1988). I believe that we have used similar taxonomy in our Canadian schools,
perhaps in different levels. I like the idea of looking at literacy in a more
“holistic” way, as Green (1988) suggests. If we are able to put together the
language aspect of literacy with its operational systems, taking in
consideration the cultural pieces, we could certainly take students’ learning
to a more advanced critical level. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When people think about literacy or what means to be
literate, many times individuals would think only about the mechanical act of
reading and writing. However, as educators, we know that being literate has a much
more significant meaning, which would translates to: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- being able to use our critical thinking, comprehension
and solving skills when faced with any difficulty in school and in life. I
believe that this is my own definition of literacy<span style="font-family: "wingdings";">!</span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">References:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Dyson, A. (2013). <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rewriting the Basics</i> – Literacy Learning in Children’s Cultures.
New York: Teachers College Press.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Freebody, Peter & </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Luke,
Allan<span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(1990). Literacies
programs: Debates and demands in cultural context. Prospect: An Australian
Journal of TESOL, 5(3), pp. 7-16. Retrieved from: </span></span><a href="http://eprints.qut.edu.au/49099/"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://eprints.qut.edu.au/49099/</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Green, B. (2012). Subject- Specific Literacy and
School Learning: A Revised Account. In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">B.
green and C. Beavis (Eds) Literacy in 3D:</i> An Integrated in Theory and
Practice. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Camnerwell, VIC: ACER.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ludwig, C. (2003). Making Sense of Literacy. In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newsletter of the Australian Literacy
Educators' Association. </i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Luke, A. & Freebody P. (1999). <span style="color: black;">Further Notes on the Four Resources Model. In: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Reading Online - Research: Four Resources
Model. </i>Retrieved from: </span><a href="http://www.readingonline.org/research/lukefreebody.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://www.readingonline.org/research/lukefreebody.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Sometimes I feel like I
never left this classroom.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">My students think I live
at school.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Sometimes I think that
too.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Is it summer yet?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">When can I rest?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">We all long for the
summer…</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Teachers, staff, students
and their parents</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">We all need to rest!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Tests, exams, activities,
field trips, plan, get ready…</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Report cards, meetings,
conferences.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Learn and forget.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Make plans again.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Some days are fun,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Some days are crazy.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Children running inside
the school when they hear the bell…</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Teachers walking fast to
get to classrooms before the students.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Another day begins…</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Students with their
priorities, problems and issues,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Teachers with their
priorities, problems and issues.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">We need a class meeting,
let’s talk about our problems.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Is that part of the
curriculum?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Yes, indeed!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">We feel relieved. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Back to our lesson plan.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Tests, exams, activities,
field trips, plan, get ready…</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Report cards, meetings,
conferences.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Learn and forget.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Make plans again.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">HOLIDAYS!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Then another year comes
around and…</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Long hours,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "chalkduster"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;">Loud voices…</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533136355615758739.post-86474878177333959452016-10-10T16:47:00.000-07:002020-03-14T16:45:53.840-07:00My JournalMy Journal <br />
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Claudia Sasse <br />
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For my first journal entry I wanted to share the results of a student recording experiment similar to the one I have used for the EDEL 505 Assignment on Oral Language.<br />
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I was intrigued by a few thoughts generated after seeing those recording of students working in a particular school task. I wanted to know how much of the students' oral interaction could actually help them to solve a problem and how they use their oral and body language to achieve this goal.<br />
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Therefore, using my classroom I-pad I recorded my students working in a group of four, two boys and two girls. As I teach a grade 2 class, their ages varies between 6 and 7 years old. These students know each other from last year's class and two of them have been together in the same class since kindergarten at the same school.<br />
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I was not able to finish the whole transcript, but I will finish that before the end of this course, so I might share it if you would like to see it.<br />
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The students were asked to solve a math problem, but as we are in a Spanish Bilingual Program; the math problem, of course is in Spanish. During this experiment the students helped each other throughout the whole task within the language itself, trying to identify the meaning of the words, and also by supporting their peers through the reasoning behind the math problem. It was very interesting to see; and I could totally perceive the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) occurring between the children during most of the process through their interactions and oral exchanges.<br />
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This was also a different experiment for me as I was conducting the experiment with "researcher ears” not only as a teacher that wants to know how much they understood the math concept taught or how much vocabulary they have acquired in their second language.<br />
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The body language presented in this activity was amazing, as the students tried to help each other showing with their hands the numbers written in Spanish. Also, the oral exchange that automatically happened in both languages showed me " the consciousness and control” discussed by Bruner (1986, p.2). The students would use the same argument twice sometimes, once in Spanish, and then to make sure that their peers understood what they were saying they would say it again in English.<br />
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It was a very rich experiment that I would recommend to every teacher as a way to listen more carefully to how your students use their oral and body language to solve tasks and to connect with each other. It can also be a great assessment tool for a specific subject, in my case for two subjects for Math and Spanish.<br />
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More language experiments (all research based) yet to come, stay tuned :)<br />
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References:<br />
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Bruner, J. (1986). The Inspiration of Vygotsky. Actual Minds, Possible worlds. Cambridge: Harvard University Press<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">As Marimoto (2008) argues: “…autoethnography challenges what counts as
knowledge, making the case for first person knowledge and life experience as data…”</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am concluding this initial conversation with a promise that I will
be registering a few more of my stories in the near future. I still need to write about some new learning and teaching experiences that I just had. Additionally, I have a few good stories on the Brazilian culture and some other issues
that I need to share before retirement! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
intention with this blog is to share some of the differences and similarities I
have found between being a teacher in Brazil for over 15 years and being a
teacher in Canada for almost 12 years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Cultural
aspects, language, climate, work conditions, education, friendships and family
are just a few of the themes I would love to talk about in my future posts.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ellis et al (2010) argues that<b>: “<span style="background: white; color: black;">writing personal stories
can also be therapeutic for participants and readers.”</span></b><span style="background: white; color: black;"> I certainly find writing my stories very
satisfying, it makes me reflect on my practice, and if I can also help other people through my writing that would be
a fantastic bonus! As my students always say: “You got your brownie points
today, Mrs. Sasse!”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thank you, Gracias, Merci
:)</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Reference:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ellis,
Carolyn; Adams, Tony E. & Bochner, Arthur P. (2010). Autoethnography: An
Overview [40 paragraphs]. </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative
Social Research</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">, <i>12</i>(1),
Art. 10, <a href="http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1101108"><span style="background: white; color: #996600;">http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1101108</span></a><span style="background: white; color: black;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Morimoto, L.
(2008). Teaching as transgression: The autoethnography of a fat physical
education instructor. <i>Proteus, 25 </i>(2), 29-36. Retrieved from </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/0B2Oop6sNUy2HU0pPN2RILXhkS2c">https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/0B2Oop6sNUy2HU0pPN2RILXhkS2c</a></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Merriam-Webster defines cultural shock as: “</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a feeling of confusion, doubt, or
nervousness caused by being in a place (such as a foreign country) that is very
different from what you are used to.”</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";"></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Before leaving
Brazil to move to Canada I read a lot about cultural shock, and the more I
read, the more I was certain that I was not going to go through a cultural
shock myself.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">I had several
reasons in my mind to believe that I would not have to fear this issue.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Canada
and Brazil are located in the same continent! I know…they are far apart from
each other, like north and south? But still, they are located in the same
continent, so I don’t have to fear!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We
have similar types of food and clothing. (So, I thought).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">I
knew a little bit of English. Yeah, right!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">The
lexical roots of Portuguese and English are from Latin and because both alphabets are pretty
much the same I thought that learning English would be an easy task.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">I was
a teacher in Brazil, I knew how to speak Portuguese and l learned Spanish as my
second language very quickly. How can learning another language be difficult for me?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">I
come from a state located in the deep South of Brazil, where it is cold and it
snows in the mountains during the winter! (Believe me it does!!!)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;">So what can go wrong? </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Part 1 - Everything!</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">When I first
moved from Brazil to Canada, I moved to London, Ontario, which was not my first
choice, but due to my husband’s job, that was our assigned place to go.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">As soon as we
arrived I already noticed the difference in climate, it was October, and it was
only +10C!!! I had just left a warm whether with temperatures ranging from 20C
to 25C on the plus side.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">After landing, a
group of friends picked us up from Pearson’s Airport, in Toronto. We stopped at a
restaurant, and my second shock occurred… What do I order? What type of food is
that? The waitress tried to explain to me, but I could not understand what she
was saying. It turns out that my English was not good enough for all of those details about food. So,
I guess that the similarities between Portuguese and English lexical roots did
not help me that much after all.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">That was just the
beginning of my cultural shock, little did I know how much more I was going to
go through with buying clothes, attending school, going to grocery stores, to the doctor’s office and with getting settle in my
first home! </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Part 2 - The First House</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Before moving to Canada, I had seen pictures of a few
places in different Canadian provinces. I saw quite a few parks, beautiful mountains and lakes, schools and
houses online. I used to imagine myself living and working in those places. I
created an image in my mind of what my home in Canada would look like. When we
finally moved to Canada, the place where we moved to, a small ugly townhouse in
London, Ontario, did not match the image I had in my head. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">The ‘funny’ thing is
that I started to develop great feelings for that small townhouse; after all it was my
first home in Canada!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I learned how to
love that little house and it did not look that small or ugly anymore. I started
to make connections with that place, I started to get to know my neighbours and
the community and that connection brought a new meaning to my place. In my mind that
was the place I should be in. (At least at that time!)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">That was just a few of my anxious moments
in Canada… there were quite a few more after that… </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">I can completely relate with the ideas shared by
Juffer (1985) on her article called: “<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">RESEARCHING
CULTURE SHOCK: THE CULTURE SHOCK ADAPTATION INVENTORY”</span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I love the beginning of
Juffer (1985)’s article, which describes really well what I went through during
my first months (years) in Canada…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">“When a person goes abroad and enters a
new environment, cultural cues that have been taken for granted as simply part
of the "fabric of life" no longer are assessed accurately. Life
becomes unpredictable and people have problems coping with even routine aspects
of living. The simplest, semi-automatic tasks such as listening to the radio,
getting a drink of water, going to the grocery store, driving a car, or
chatting with neighbours require full concentration and attention to complete
successfully. Since every detail, large and small, in the new environment
demands the full attention of the expatriate, mental fatigue soon occurs which
further frustrates the coping mechanisms.” (Juffer, 1985, p.2) </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">References:</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial";">Cultural
Shock - definition (n.d.). In <i>Merriam Webster</i>. Retrieved August 7, 2016
from</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://sites.google.com/a/ualberta.ca/web-2-0---tools-for-primary-teachers/goog_1154892277"><span style="color: #0d6bad;"> </span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/culture%20shock">http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/culture%20shock</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial";">Juffer, K. (1985). </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Researching
Culture Shock: The Culture Shock Adaptation Inventory. In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Action Research & Associates, Inc.</i> Washington: DC. Retrieved
from <a href="http://actionresearchinc.com/docs/researching-culture-shock.pdf">http://actionresearchinc.com/docs/researching-culture-shock.pdf</a></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">They go to the lake…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Background:</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">First of all, I
need to say why I am choosing this place…</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">So here it goes: as
Ellis (2010) argues, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">"A place is above all a
territory of meanings. These meanings are created both by what one receives
from and by what one gives to a particular environmental context” (p. 394). </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This lake has a great importance to me; as I walk
around the lake almost every day, I have developed a huge appreciation for this
place for its environmental aspects and for some other personal aspects that I
will reveal in the next segments of my analyses.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial";"> Real
Picture of the lake:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> (From my personal archive)</span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial";">Why
this place is important to me:</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This place is important to me because this lake has
been part of my life since I moved to Airdrie, in 2009, and I have been visiting it since then.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I first found this lake by accident, of course, the
city of Airdrie had advertised its parks all the time on its website and on the
local newspaper. But, I never took the time to go and visit the parks. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">One day, as I was doing my daily walk after work, I
took a different path and that path took me to this lake! The lake was just 30
minutes from my house, but because I was always followed the same trails I
never been to the lake before.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I was amazed! It is such a beautiful and peaceful
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">That was early in November 2009, since then I try to
walk around the East Lake every day. Sometimes I take my dog with me; sometimes
my daughter comes along; other times my husband comes with me.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I have already built such great memories about this
lake! I remember walking around the lake very excited with the possibility of a
new teaching job coming up. Other times I was sad, walking around the lake,
thinking about the things that had happened during my day that were not so
good.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";"> Aerial View of the Lake:</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>Teachers need a place for relaxation... I found mine, a place where I go after school to re-energize for the next day :)</b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I love to walk around that lake just to get some fresh
air and to organize my mind and thoughts. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I love to walk there and look at people strolling by
the lake in different directions; some of them alone, others with one or two
dogs, some with their children; a few of them even texting and walking. A few
people like to bike around the lake instead, while others prefer to skate or
just do a quick jog. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">They all seem to be part of a dance-ballet,
suggested by Seamon (1979), </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">"the groundstone of place ballet
is the coming together of peoples' time-space routines and body ballets in
terms of space.” (p.144).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I feel part of the dance too…sometimes I feel like I
am dancing a salsa, as walk happily around the lake. Other days it feels like I
am dancing an endless tango as I pace around the lake thinking about some of
the problems that I need to solve…</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I have developed a sense of attachment and dependence
for this lake, so much so that when I cannot go there for my habitual walk, I
feel that there is something missing in my day... And there is something
missing… my connection with that place, my time alone, and my break from the
pressures of my workday is being neglected. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I can get quite moody if I don’t get to walk around
the lake for too many days in a row. I can totally see how places can add value
to our perspectives and be so intrinsically part of our daily lives. As Ellis
(2011) has argued, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">"our experiences are circumscribed by our
places and our personalities and perspectives are developed from the
experiences we have in the places available to us.” (p. 355).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I go to so many places during the day… I go to my
school then back home, to the grocery store, to my friends’ houses, to the
local fast food restaurants, etc. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But, that lake is where I feel rested, I feel
re-energized, and this place is so close to home that sometimes I feel like it
is part of my home! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I really like Relph’s (1976) quote: </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">“but one thing
at least is clear – weather the world we live in has a placeless geography or a
geography of significant places, the responsibility for it is ours alone.” (p.
147). This idea resonates so much with me…</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <span lang="EN-US">This lake is
available to me everyday, at any time of the day, and I take advantage of its
proximity and peacefulness.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As John Muir’s famous quote says: “The mountains are
calling and I must go.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I paraphrase him and say: <b>“The lake is calling
and I must go.”</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial";">My
personal view of the lake:</span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> (My own
drawing, it was not done by a kindergarten student!!! LOL<b>)</b></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial";">Ellis,
J. (2004). Researching Children's Place and Space. <i>JCT: Journal Of
Curriculum Theorizing (1057896X)</i>, <i>20</i>(1), 83-100.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial";">Ellis,
J. (2010). The importance of attending to children and place. In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">G.S. Goodman (Ed.), Educational psychology
reader: The art and science of how people learn</i> (p. 386 - 402). New York:
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial";">Muir,
J.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (n.d.). BrainyQuote.com. Retrieved August 4, 2016, from
BrainyQuote.com Web site: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johnmuir380220.html"><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johnmuir380220.html</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Relph, E. (1976). Place and Placeness. In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Research in Planning and Design. </i>(141-147). London: Pion Limited.
Retrieved from: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://eclass.srv.ualberta.ca/pluginfile.php/2870157/mod_resource/content/1/B%20-%20Relph%20-%20Prospects%20for%20Places.pdf"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><span lang="EN-US">https://eclass.srv.ualberta.ca/pluginfile.php/2870157/mod_resource/content/1/B%20-%20Relph%20-%20Prospect<span lang="EN-US">s%20for%20Places.pdf</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"></span></div>
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D. (1979). Place Ballet as a Whole. In <i>A Geography of the LifeWorld</i>.
(142-153). London: Croom Helm. Retrieved from: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://eclass.srv.ualberta.ca/pluginfile.php/2870263/mod_resource/content/1/C%20-%20Seamon%20-%20Place%20Ballet%20as%20a%20Whole.pdf"><span style="color: #104023; font-family: "arial"; text-decoration: none;">https://eclass.srv.ualberta.ca/pluginfile.php/2870263/mod_resource/content/1/C%20-%20Seamon%20-%20Place%20Ballet%20as%20a%20Whole.pdf</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "arial";"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial";">Hamdan (2012) argues that: "the
tie between intercultural learning experiences and how they contribute to a
learning process that is further facilitated through the methodology/process of
autoethnography.” </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Teaching in
Canada to me has been an amazing experience. I wanted to move to Canada, I
wanted to teach in Canada. And, here I am teaching in a Spanish Bilingual School in
Calgary by choice, and I love it!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">When I was about to move to Canada, my Brazilian fellow teachers once told me: “you are moving to a land
of plenty.” Little did I know how much accuracy this statement would carry... We
have everything we need here in our “ True, North, Strong and Free Land.” Our
schools are well equipped; we have great technology available, even though we
think we don’t… We have tons (and I mean it: tons!!!) of school supplies
available to us daily in our classrooms!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">I have so many
books in my classroom library; I have other several books dedicated exclusively
for home reading. I have two massive book collections, one in English and one in
Spanish. My Math resource’s closet is full of manipulatives. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">I have a few globes
and several maps for social studies. I have another shelf full of materials
that resembles a “mini-lab” for science. I have a brand new Smart-Board
connected to a new Mac Lap-Top, plus two Mac desktop computers for students’
use. Our gym has several materials that enable me to create different physical
education units for the whole school year. We have plenty!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">I am sure I have
forgotten to mention several other resources that I have available for me and
for my students at my school. However, the point that I want to make is, we
have so much stuff, and we hoard things; we underutilize resources and we
waste our supplies!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">I have talked to
my administration, to the students' parents and to my fellow teachers about our daily
waste of materials at school. We held several discussions with our students
about saving our resources starting in our classrooms. We have accomplished a
lot so far! We have adopted the famous motto: “reduce, re-use recycle.” Our
students are becoming more mindful of the amount of resources we use daily in the
classrooms. They are becoming more creative, they are developing a different
mindset regarding the attention that they give to their personal belongings.
They are making a difference in our classroom and at their homes! And that is what
I like the most…</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial";">Hamdan,
A. (2012). Autoethnography as a Genre of Qualitative Research: A Journey Inside
Out (pp.585- 606) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In International
Journal of Qualitative Methods </i>11(5). Retrieved from: <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/0B2Oop6sNUy2HU0pPN2RILXhkS2c">https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/0B2Oop6sNUy2HU0pPN2RILXhkS2c</a></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">As Wall (2006) argued: <i><span style="color: #1a1718;">"Autoethnography is an emerging qualitative research
method that allows the author to write in a highly personalized style, drawing
on his or her experience to extend understanding about a societal phenomenon." </span></i></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Teaching in
Brazil was not an easy task. The schools were old and the school’s supplies
were scarce. The economy in Brazil was never good, and the corruption
contributed to the lack of resources for schools and for so many other
organizations dedicated to the public interest. In other words, a very sad situation,
but that never let my mood to be changed or my dreams to be vanished away!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We had, though,
to save absolutely everything in order to have materials available for any
project we wanted to create. That was always our main goal, to save as much
school supplies and resources as we could to make it last until the end of the
school year. Students had to learn very early in life how to “budget” for school
supplies... and for everything else!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">With the “save
everything’s mind set” came a lot of creativity. We had to be creative, we had
to invent and recycle things. I remember using lots of different materials in
my Art classes. We also learned how to share and trade everything we could. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">I used to have in
my classroom a large treasure box! It was not like these treasure boxes that
you see here in Canada at the restaurants where the children can pick a cool
toy at the end of their meals. My treasure box housed recycled pieces of paper,
wool, tape, buttons, thread, yarn, glue, a few pairs of scissors, and a few
other things that we could use to create a great artifact. That was all we had
to be artistic when working on a classroom project. Sometimes I would have a
few students bringing some supplies from home to the classroom as well, but nothing fancy,
only a few scraps of what their moms had in their sewing kits, a few empty
yogurt containers, egg cartons, etc.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">However, at the
end of the day, we would have castles, princes and princess, parks, forests,
airplanes, hospitals, schools, cars, ambulances and so many other cool things
made of recycled materials. All of the students' work was designed through a lot of creativity and personal involvement. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We had to be
careful so our artifacts would not fall apart before getting home, as the amount of glue and
tape we had was very limited. We normally had a mini-fair where the other students
from different classes would come and look at our creations. Then, the students would take their objects home and cherish them as if they were precious models.
Those artifacts were precious to them and to their families. Those simple pieces
of artwork were more than precious! And, I really miss that time...</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #141213; font-family: "arial";">Reference:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial";">Wall,
Sarah. (2006). An Autoethnography on Learning about Autoethnography. In <i>International
Journal of Qualitative Methods 5 (2) </i>Article 9. Retrieved from <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/~iiqm/backissues/5_2/pdf/wall.pdf"><span style="color: #0e6b34; text-decoration: none;">http://www.ualberta.ca/~iiqm/backissues/5_2/pdf/wall.pdf</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";"></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Ellis et al (2010),
describe Auto-Ethnography as an: “</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial";">… approach to research and writing that seeks to
describe and systematically analyze personal experience in order to understand
cultural experience. This approach challenges canonical ways of doing research
and representing others and treats research as a political, socially-just and
socially-conscious act. A researcher uses tenets of autobiography and
ethnography to do and write auto-ethnography. Thus, as a method, auto-ethnography
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial";">In this blog, which will
be my personal journal through my daily experiences in Education, I will start
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial";">I will mix stories from
the past, when I was a teacher in Brazil with my recent experiences of being a
teacher in Canada. I will try to make sense of the things that happened to me
when I was a teacher in Brazil that helped to shape who I am today. I will try
to show through my current stories what I still bring in me from my life
growing up and teaching in Brazil during the 70s, 80s and 90s. But I will not
tell you how old I am. You might figure this one out based on the stories you
will read.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial";">Now, embark with me in
this adventurous journey from the past to the future!</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial";">Thank you!</span><br />
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial";">PS.: In 2013, I gave an interview for the University of Calgary Courses' Program and I talked about some of the dreams I had at that point. Some of those dreams I already achieved!</span></i><br />
<i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial";"><i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial";">Please, find on the link below a brief story of my educational trajectory after moving from Brazil to Canada. </span></i></span></i><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial";"><a href="http://conted.ucalgary.ca/stories/students/claudiasasse.jsp">http://conted.ucalgary.ca/stories/students/claudiasasse.jsp</a> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial";">Ellis, Carolyn; Adams, Tony E.
& Bochner, Arthur P. (2010). Autoethnography: An Overview [40 paragraphs].<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i>Forum Qualitative
Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research</i>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>12</i>(1),
Art. 10,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: auto; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></a><a href="http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1101108"><span style="mso-bookmark: "";"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #996600; font-family: "arial";">http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1101108</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "";"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "";"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial";">.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial";">Sasse, C. (2013). Spanish Language and Culture Certificate - Interview. In: <i>University of Calgary ContEd.</i> Calgary, Canada: U of C Courses and Programs Magazine. Retrieved from:</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial";">http://conted.ucalgary.ca/stories/students/claudiasasse.jsp</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ellis et al (2010),
argue that: “<span style="background: white; color: black;">…‘telling’ is a writing
strategy that works with ‘showing’ in that it provides readers some distance
from the events described so that they might think about the events in a more
abstract way." </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
presentation is called Voki creation, and you can use this tool to introduce
yourself in a blog, in an e-Class, etc. You can even use it to introduce
yourself to your own class of students! Through a Voki’s Avatar you can tell
who you are… here it is me…</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hello Everyone and Welcome
to my Auto-Ethnography Blog!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
The link below will take you that a brief introduction about my blog.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
Enjoy it:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
<a href="http://www.voki.com/site/pickup?scid=12966490&width=575&height=323&chsm=705dbef99b5152db79aae84728fc4550">http://www.voki.com/site/pickup?scid=12966490&width=575&height=323&chsm=705dbef99b5152db79aae84728fc4550</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white; color: black;">Ellis, Carolyn; Adams, Tony E.
& Bochner, Arthur P. (2010). Autoethnography: An Overview [40
paragraphs]. </span><i>Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum:
Qualitative Social Research</i>, <i>12</i>(1), Art. 10, <a href="http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1101108"><span style="background: white; color: #996600;">http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1101108</span></a><span style="background: white; color: black;">.</span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ellis et al
(2010), argue that: “…a</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial";">utobiographers also can make a text
artful and evocative by altering authorial points of view.”</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial";">This poem will tell you
my perspectives of being a teacher, seeing from the school daily’s routines.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></div>
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<b>For The Loving Of Teaching</b><br />
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Long hours,<br />
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Loud voices.<br />
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Sometimes I feel like I never left this classroom.<br />
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My students think I live at school.<br />
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Sometimes I think that too.<br />
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Is it summer yet?<br />
<br />
When can I rest?<br />
<br />
We all long for the summer…<br />
<br />
Teachers, staff, students and their parents<br />
<br />
We just want to get over with it.<br />
<br />
Tests, exams, activities, field trips, plan, get ready…<br />
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Report cards, meetings, conferences.<br />
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Learn and forget.<br />
<br />
Make plans again.<br />
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Some days are fun,<br />
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Some days are crazy.<br />
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Children running inside the school when they hear the bell…<br />
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Teachers walking fast to get to classrooms before the students.<br />
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Another day begins…<br />
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Students with their priorities, problems and issues,<br />
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Teachers with their priorities, problems and issues.<br />
<br />
We need a class meeting, let’s talk about our problems.<br />
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Is that part of the curriculum?<br />
<br />
Yes, indeed!<br />
<br />
We feel relieved.<br />
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Back to our lesson plan.<br />
<br />
Tests, exams, activities, field trips, plan, get ready…<br />
<br />
Report cards, meetings, conferences.<br />
<br />
Learn and forget.<br />
<br />
Make plans again.<br />
<br />
HOLIDAYS!<br />
<br />
Then another year comes around and…<br />
<br />
Long hours,<br />
<br />
Loud voices…<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial";">Ellis, Carolyn; Adams, Tony E.
& Bochner, Arthur P. (2010). Autoethnography: An Overview [40 paragraphs].<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i>Forum Qualitative
Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research</i>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>12</i>(1),
Art. 10,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: auto; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></a><a href="http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1101108"><span style="mso-bookmark: "";"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #996600; font-family: "arial";">http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1101108</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "";"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "";"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial";">.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533136355615758739.post-11318271226467530992016-08-01T19:00:00.001-07:002016-08-05T07:34:25.777-07:00Little Child of Mine - Poem
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ellis et al
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researchers do <i>autoethnography</i>, they retrospectively and
selectively write about epiphanies that stem from, or are made possible by,
being part of a culture and/or by possessing a particular cultural identity.” </span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This poem will tell you a
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Little Child of Mine<br />
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A little child had a desire<br />
She wanted to show other children how do to things<br />
The little child loved to share her games and toys<br />
She liked to see others creating original things<br />
The little child treasured those moments<br />
She seemed like a mother sometimes, even though she was so young...<br />
The little child enjoyed teaching her friends all the cool things she could do<br />
She was respected among her friends; they always listened to her<br />
The little girl had so much to give<br />
She had so many hopes and dreams<br />
The little girl wanted to be a teacher<br />
She wanted to change the world<br />
That little girl was me!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533136355615758739.post-4915566045784608222016-08-01T18:58:00.001-07:002020-03-14T17:10:31.026-07:00My Secret Places: Where Everything Started...<b> </b><b>
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<b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ellis et al
(2010), argue that </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial";">“… autoethnography is one of the
approaches that acknowledges and accommodates subjectivity, emotionality, and
the researcher's influence on research, rather than hiding from these matters
or assuming they don't exist.”</span></b></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial";">That is so true; you will
be able to see that through my stories and poems shared in this blog…</span></div>
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<b><b>My Secret Places: </b></b></div>
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<b>Location: Novo Hamburgo (city), Rio Grande do Sul (state), Brazil</b><br />
<b>Time frame: 1985-1990.</b><br />
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I
had the privilege of growing up in Brazil in the 70s, and because of
that I was exposed to lots of places to play inside and outside my
house.<br />
In the 70s, Brazil’s economy was not bad as it is today and
our country was a safe place to be in. A great place to live in, to
study and perfect to have a great quality of live!<br />
<br />
When I was a
child my only preoccupation was to hide from my little brother. I was 8
years old when he was born; my other two siblings were older and were
not around very much. The only thing I needed to do was to find a place
where my little brother could not find me, so I could have some peace of
mind for a few minutes, if I was lucky enough I would get a few hours
of “freedom…”<br />
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I remember playing in my room underneath my bed, as I
shared a room with my brother, playing in our room by myself was out of
the equation. I recall hiding underneath my bed with my favorite dolls
and spending hours imagining places where they could go. Sometimes I
would talk out loud, pretending that the dolls were talking to each
other, but as soon as I could hear my little brother coming I would be
very quiet, so he would not find my secret place.<br />
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Another place
that comes to my mind as being a great place to hide and a nice spot to
play was the backyard of my best friend’s house; she was also my closest
neighbor. She had an enormous backyard, I remember being jealous about
her backyard and all the opportunities that she had to play and have fun
in that great space. She also did not have younger siblings, only an
older brother, so that was another layer of my jealousy. My friend and I
used to pretend that we would have a picnic in a forest faraway from
home… we would walk around her backyard for several minutes while we
fantasized that the place where we are going to was very distant from
our houses. So, we had to walk, and walk and walk…during our walk we
would see birds flying from on tree to the other. We would also see
little insects that would cause disgust and fear sometimes. Before we
got to our perfect imaginary place, we would stop and sit down in the
middle of the bushes to rest. We would lay down on the untamed grass and
look at the sky… we would look at the clouds and imagine that they were
animals, people, mountains, accordingly to their shapes… we would even
argue sometimes about what each shape would look like to each of us.<br />
<br />
I
remember going over her mom’s flowers and jumping over a few scrubs to
get to our “perfect spot in the forest.” For some reason, that I can’t
remember, we always selected the same place to have our picnics. I
recall bringing a few items from home, such as plastic plates and cups, a
few snacks, spoons, forks and knifes. My friend had tomatoes planted in
her backyard, so we loved to pick a few to improve our “picnic feast.”
We would eat those tomatoes without washing them, as her mom said that
it was OK, as they did not put pesticides on the tomatoes. Sometimes we
had long picnics, we would talk about our “imaginary boyfriends” that
were at work while we are having our picnics, we would imagine that they
would come to our houses later in the evening to kiss us good-night. As
we were only nine, ten years old, the only boyfriends we had were those
ones we had created in our minds… Quite a few times our picnics would
be cut short by my brother running into her backyard screaming my name:
“Claudia, Claudia go home!!! Mom is calling you!”<br />
<br />
My brother never
looked for me in the backyard, we were always at the same spot, but he
never found us… our perfect spot was behind my friend’s house beside a
set of stairs that would go to the back of my friend’s house. She also
had a small dog that used to bark like crazy to strangers. I guess that
her dog did not like my brother neither did my brother liked him. Maybe
that is why my brother never tried to find me there… I remember hearing
the dog barking first, then I would hear my brother… then I knew, it was
time to go home, picnic time was over! Sometimes I would just pretend
that I could not hear my brother screaming my name… but then my mom
would come and call me… I would get in trouble those days and my mom
would not allow me to have our picnics for a few days.<br />
But, my
favorite hiding place of all was a really special place. A place where
my brother could not see me, and even when he was able to see me, he was
not able to get to me… My favorite place to play was on top of huge
avocado tree that was planted in between my best friends’ yard and mine.
I don’t know who planted that tree, but when we moved to that
neighborhood the tree was already there, and it was already big and
majestic. Because the tree was in planted right on the border between my
friends’ yard and mine, we never knew who actually owned that tree. The
only thing we knew was that the tree was there and we could climb as
high as we wanted. And we did!<br />
That avocado tree was huge, and
leafy; its branches were very strong and long and we could climb up
almost to the top of the tree. My friend and I used to gather a few
books, dolls, snacks and sometimes even a small radio, and we would
climb the tree to play and get away from my brother. I normally would go
first, she would be at the bottom of the tree handing me our
“apparatus…” Every summer, we would get together prepare our bags and up
we went on top of the avocado tree.<br />
<br />
I remember how hot our
summers were in Brazil, but on top of that tree we could feel a breeze
on our faces. We could have a break from the warm wind and from the
scorching sun. I remember the smell of that tree; it would stay on our
hands when we got home. We had to wash our hands several times to get
free from the avocado’s tree scent. Not that I did not like the smell,
it was a good smell, but my mom did not like it. She used to say that I
smelled like a homeless child when I got home. Especially because my
clothes would get stained from the branches, plus a few scrapes on my
skin would for sure resemble a child that spent the day on the streets…<br />
<br />
I
remember when the tree was full of fruits, just waiting for us to pick
them. We would go there with a few plastic bags; sometimes even buckets
and the whole neighborhood would be waiting for us to get down the tree
to give them some avocados. Those avocados were delicious. They would
sometimes be also part of our picnic’s feast!<br />
<br />
My best memories are
from when we used to take a few blankets and books to the top of tree,
my favorite thing to do… we would place the blankets on top of the
branches to make them more comfortable and we would laid down on top of
those blankets and just stay there reading for hours! I remember reading
my favorite novels, Pollyanna’s books! I used to read them from the top
of tree and transport myself to all of the places that Pollyanna
ventured to go. It is amazing now, that just by thinking about my
avocado tree I get transported to those branches, to those hot summers,
when I was just a child playing on top of the tree. I can even feel the
breeze on my face, I can smell the tree, and I can even hear my friend’s
voice…<br />
<br />
I remember that our parents were concerned that one day we
would fall off the tree and accordingly to them, break our necks… That
was a very tragic statement to say the least, but my friend and I never
shared this fear. We just wanted to climb the tree and be there without
interruptions, just being kids, reading, playing, laughing and most
importantly hiding from my brother.<br />
<br />
One thing we also enjoyed
doing was pouring water down on people’s heads… I know, that was not the
best thing to do, but we sure had fun doing that. As some of the tree’
branches could grow on top of the road, we will climb on those branches
and just spill water on whoever was passing by. Some people actually
knew us very well and they also knew who are parents were…so they would
complain to our parents, and then again, our playtime would be cut
short…<br />
<br />
One afternoon, we had the idea of carving our names on the
tree branches, I am not sure who came up with the idea, but we did it.
We took a small switchblade along with all the other paraphernalia that
we used to carry to the top of the tree. When we got to the top, we did
not know if you should only write our initials or our full names. We
were afraid to be recognized by people, but then we thought, nobody else
climbs this tree other than us, also everybody knows that we hide on
top of this avocado tree. So that would not be a difficult task for
people to guess who carved the tree…so we decided to write our names,
only first names and date. I wish I could remember the date… I wish I
could go back to Brazil and visit that tree to see if our names still
there. Probably not, as my friend’s dad used to prune that tree very
often. I lost contact with that friend, she moved to another city;
otherwise I could make her climb the tree to check for our “art work.”<br />
<br />
After
spending the whole hot afternoons on top of tree making plans about our
future, daydreaming and imagining things, we would go down and walk to
our picnic spot. This time with a bag full of avocados, that would be
part of our picnic meal. We would eat so many avocados that we would get
sick…<br />
<br />
I don’t know how come I still love avocados after being
sick so many times after overeating them! I open an avocado at home now
to make a dessert or a guacamole for my family, and that smell carries
me back to that time were life was so carefree, when I had so many
dreams, where my only fear was those giant spiders hiding on the avocado
leaves.<br />
<br />
When we were finished with our picnic, normally around
the sunset time, my friend’s parents would call her inside for a prayer
meeting. She was an Adventist. At that time I had no clue what that was,
as my family was Catholic and the only prayer time I had was before the
Sunday Mass.<br />
<br />
One time, I asked my friend if I could go with her
to her prayer meeting… she had to ask her parents… and they allowed me
to take part in their gatherings. Her parents were such a lovely couple.
Her dad was a joker, always making fun of us, for being muddy, for our
scrapes and for our not so pleasant smell. Her mom was a little bit more
serious, she would never make a joke, but we could see her trying not
to laugh at her husband’s jokes. That was a hard task, as he could make
people laugh very easily. I recall that my friend’s mom suffered of
migraines. I remember seeing her with slices of potatoes wrapped around
her forehead several times. She used to say that potatoes had the
“natural power” to remove pain… Although I never believed that, I always
respected her and never laughed of her looks when wearing those
bandanas filled with potatoes’ slices. My friend’s brother used to crack
himself up every time he saw his mom with the bandana full of potatoes.
He used to say that she was the real “Potato Head.”<br />
<br />
I cannot
recall when I started attending their home prayer meetings, but I
remember liking them. We would gather in their living room, sitting at
their comfortable sofas. We did not have sofas like that at my house…
their recliners smelled like leather; they looked so warm and inviting.
My friend’s mom used to have knitted throws on the arm of each chair. I
remember fighting with my friend for the most beautiful and longer one,
which I never understood why, as she could have all of them to herself,
as soon as I would leave her house… at least that was what her mom used
to say.<br />
<br />
I have great memories of those meetings…they were called
“Sunset Prayer Meeting.” My friend’s father would read a Bible passage
and explain it to us, I remember asking him a lot of questions, and he
must have felt tired of the amount of questions I would ask. Most of
those stories were new to me, my friend on the other hand have heard
those stories several times. The best part of their meetings was when
they sang together. They had a hymnbook with a rather small selection,
and by the end of my tenth meeting or so, I already had my favorites.
And of course, I would ask them to sing those hymns, and I would most of
the time sing along with my “out of tune” voice, accordingly to my
friend’s dad. That was another joke that he liked to throw on me.<br />
<br />
The
best memory that I have from those meetings were not the stories, or
even the songs, which I do not recall any of them. The best part of
those meetings was my friend’s family gathering. I recall their faces,
they seem to enjoy each other’s presence in such a meaningful way, that I
have never experienced with my own family. I felt part of that family
during those gatherings! I remember thinking to myself how I wished that
my family would have the same type of connection that they had within
their family. That was so precious. They looked at each other with love.
They joked about things, they would get serious when reading the Bible
verses, but mostly the meeting’s atmosphere was so powerful that I
recall it until today.<br />
<br />
My friend moved to her auntie’s house in
another city to start high school at a private school. Her family could
not afford that school, so her auntie took on the responsibility to take
care of my friend and pay for her schooling.<br />
<br />
My friend would come
back over the weekends. I would wait for Fridays to come, as I would
wait for Santa Claus to come… She had so many things to share. She
always had new and different clothes on. I was again going through a
very hard jealousy process, mixed with the pain of not having my friend
close to me as she used to be in the past.<br />
<br />
Our relationship changed
drastically… I still don’t know why, as I never revealed to her my
jealousy. I was never again invited to their prayer meetings. We started
to see each other less and less. Until she finally moved to her
auntie’s house permanently, visiting her family less than once a month. I
saw my friend a few times during her visits to her family. After a
couple of months I moved as well and we never saw each other anymore. I
guess we did once briefly, in a Concert, but we just waived to each
other from far away.<br />
<br />
My memories of these places are very much
intrinsically attached to people. This feeling of connecting places with
people still lives in me until now. I cannot recall a place that I have
been to without remembering somebody from that place, even if my visit
was just for a short stay. For me, place and people go together as
peanut butter and jelly; or as avocados and tomatoes for a picnic snack.<br />
<br />
I
know, maybe for other people they can just think about the place, with
no strings or people attached to it. But that must be because they do
not like peanut butter and jelly and/or they do not like avocados and
tomatoes for a picnic snack…<br />
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Here is a sneak peek of my special secret place:<br />
Drawn by me...<br />
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