{"id":2476,"date":"2015-06-02T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=2476"},"modified":"2015-06-02T16:42:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T20:42:57","slug":"curriculum-cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/curriculum-cooking\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum Cooking"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m at the end of day two of VCU’s first annual University Seminar on General Education. There’s more to say than I can possibly articulate in this small space of time, but I do want to mark this phase of the experience with a metaphor. Metaphors are how I mark my experience. (I was going to qualify that sentence with various hedging “arguably” and “perhaps” locutions, but thought better of it.)<\/p>\n

Thanks to a wonderful suggestion by Suzie Fairman, my division’s Coordinator of Operations, we closed day one of the seminar by adjourning to a kitchen-school and cooking together. Tapas! Team. Nourishment. Fellowship. Direct instruction (recipes, kitchen rules and etiquette) along with informal learning and a good deal of improvisation. Not a bad metaphor for the way we’re trying to imagine (and re-imagine, and design) a general education curriculum (or environment) cooking with connection.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Jeff South<\/p><\/div>\n

Now for a little more weight on the metaphor: see how\u00a0this context\u00a0problematizes the often pernicious dichotomies between “sage on the stage” and “guide at the side,” or between “group work” and\u00a0“individual reflection.” And I freely confess, and loudly celebrate, that it was hard to quarrel with the very tasty results.<\/p>\n

Below,\u00a0more cooking, in a setting that could benefit from the liberal application of that\u00a0metaphor:<\/p>\n

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Here I leave the further elaboration as an exercise for the reader(s).<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, our midpoint. What will be the feast we prepare together?<\/p>\n

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