The experts' side of the story
"A good story-teller plays our emotions, as a good violinist plays a violin. We resonate with the rhythm of the binary conflict, the events that carry it forward, and its resolution. Education, seen through the dominant planning and research models, is largely logical and narrowly rational business. In this view, education is an area where there is little room for our emotional lives. For this reason, the 'affective' is usually considered a matter only for the arts - the educational margin or 'frills.'"
Kieren Egan (1986)
Kieren Egan (1986)
"All of these stories make me who I am. But to insist on only these negative stories is to flatten my experience, and to overlook the many other stories that formed me. The single story creates stereotypes. And the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."
Chimamanda Adichie (2009)
Chimamanda Adichie (2009)
"Community is something most of us want as it helps us experience the sense and meaning that we need in our lives. Being connected to others and being connected to institutions we value is a way to be connected to ourselves, to know that we belong, to know that we count for something important, to know that we are valued."
Sergiovanni (2005)
Sergiovanni (2005)