What is Your Story?

“At the heart of education are two questions: What kind of people do we want to be? What kind of world do we want to live in?” So write Ann Pelo and Margie Carter (authors of a new book, From Teaching to Thinking), in a recent article in Exchange magazine. They go on to say, “Our answers to these questions help us answer a third question: What is the purpose of education and how do we go about achieving it?...

In today’s story of education what answers might we deduce from the pressures to inscribe early childhood programs with standardized, scripted curriculum that emphasizes literacy, numeracy and science concepts at the cost of vigorous  play and rigorous exploration?” they ask.

Pelo and Carter pose a question about what kind of story we want to tell about our work as early educators and leaders: “What if the story were transformed with an understanding that pedagogical practice should be aimed at sustaining a culture of inquiry, where educators listen, wonder and reflect; where we are surprised, delighted and moved?”

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