This paper advances Portelli and Vibert’s (2001) concept of a ‘curriculum of life’ as a central organizing concept in education. A curriculum of life, defined as a “curriculum that is grounded in the immediate daily world of students as well as in the larger social, political contexts of their lives” (Portelli & Vibert, 2001, p. 63) is, de facto, at the centre of student learning. I argue that teachers can engage with this immediate daily world and enact a curriculum of life by practicing mindfulness and complexity thinking as ways of valuing relationships and engagement. Complexity thinking in education, which draws upon themes of emergence, self-organization and non-linearity, leads us to a relational ethics that compels educators to take mindful responsibility for how our actions and responses affect the world.
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Park, S. R. (2020). Enacting a ‘Curriculum of Life’: Mindfulness and Complexity Thinking in the Classroom. Paideusis, 16(3), 45–55. https://doi.org/10.7202/1072488ar
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