A BALANCED CURRICULUM: Extending the Concept of Relevance

IMAGE: A silhouette of a child with open eyes surrounded by a white aura 
       balanced between two mandalic images. 

Melissa: Nice art, but what's this gotta do with curricula?

Tim:     (coyly) Well, perhaps we think metaphorically?

Melissa: Metaphors give me headaches – it's jes a piece ah art.

Liao:    Actually, this art expresses a whole teaching philosophy.

Satoru:  (half-chuckling to himself) If you say so – I only see pixels.


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from _Crassroom Voices - Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Education_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY:  A metaphorical representation of a harmonized instructional curriculum.
KEYWORDS: curricular balance, metaphors for pedagogy, mandala of serenity

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 2001 in Nagoya, Japan / Finished: 2013 in Tokyo, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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