Month: February 2024

Chinese New Year is like Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter all rolled into one…It’s all about food and family for two weeks.” Daniel Low (in Arrais, Times Colonist, 2024), Wong Sheung Kung Fu Club, Victoria, BC

Chinese New Year is a time to feast and to visit family members. Many traditions of the season [honour] relatives who have died. The last event of the 15-day celebration is the Lantern Festival. People often hang glowing lanterns in temples or carry them during a nighttime parade. (Britannicakids.com)

Celebrating the Lunar New Year with food, family and lion dances

 

Communities and governments will work in partnership to affirm children as citizens who are valued members of their communities and contributors to their societies. Adults will work to ensure a space where pride of languages and cultures are cultivated, and in which children can take up social and traditional responsibilities. As part of their efforts to understand, value, and accept responsibility for promoting early learning, all levels of government and all communities will work together to nurture and support children and families, and to support parents, grandparents, and other family members in their efforts to promote children's learning and overall well-being. (BC ELF, 2019, pp. 12-13).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[W]hen you ask people to think about what it means to be human and our relationships with our plant and animal relatives in lands and waters, there’s like a leap that people have to take.

The first leap is always an affective leap—it feels so good to be outside, it feels so good to be listening to birds and watching the waves. All of that is important but it doesn’t help us to answer these larger questions of how do we understand territory, how do we understand migration, how do we understand our responsibilities to one another, how do we understand our stories, and how do we live our stories. So, the second leap is socio-political and temporal…

Walking is really powerful for lots of reasons. And walking along with reading land I don’t think is sufficient. I think it gets us to some of the affective spaces, but not necessarily spaces of reimagining, or remembering, or creation. The story part is vitally important and we have to ask who are we storying with, and what are we storying, and what are we storying towards. It’s not just about telling a story. It’s about the purpose, and the lived relations, and the *axiological dimensions. (Ananda Marin in Bang, Marin, Wemigwase, Nayak, & Nxumalo, 2022, pp. 158-159)

Reference:

Bang, M., Marin, A., Wemigwase, S., Nayak, P., & Nxumalo, F. (2022). Undoing human supremacy and white supremacy to transform relationships: An interview with Megan Bang and Ananda Marin. Curriculum Inquiry, 52:2, 150-161, DOI: 10.1080/03626784.2022.2052635

*From Google: What is the meaning of axiology in education?