Papers by David W Jardine
Why is this duck? Why does she give Me such pleasure?
Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 2026
This is a collection of various solo and co-written bits and pieces all variously focusing old ag... more This is a collection of various solo and co-written bits and pieces all variously focusing old age and its lived-experiences, the arts of writing, the idea of "the whole" in the language of some writing on ecologically alert education, early childhood education, attention to particulars, encouraging students new to the fields of education and the teaching and learning that ensues, an old book read over 50 years ago (!) and ecological pedagogy.
This chapter presents a philosophical reflection on ecological mindfulness as it relates to curri... more This chapter presents a philosophical reflection on ecological mindfulness as it relates to curriculum integration, mathematics education, and experiential education. The chapter's title refers to a collection of poems that are full of "particulars"--the meticulous details of memory and reverie--and that show how lives are always lived in the face of these stubborn particulars. To understand what is present in an ecologically sane, integrated way is to somehow see the particular thing in place, located in a patterned nest of interdependencies without which it would not be what it is. Differently put, understanding "the whole" involves paying attention to the particular in its wholeness. All too often, curriculum integration means the combination of the literal surface features of activities from different subject areas, such as presenting first-graders with basic addition problems surrounded by line drawings of teddy bears to be colored. Such efforts seek to make curricular fragments whole, not by sticking with them and delving into their particular mysteries, but by surrounding them with other equally isolated, unexamined fragments. A truly integrated approach to mathematics education requires the simultaneous realizations that each child's learning is embedded in a web of relationships and possibilities, and that the patterned doings of mathematics are not simply isolated facts but reflect the mathematicity of language and of an array of nature's rhythms. (Contains 15 references.) (SV)
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Sep 1, 2019
. "Raise or bend into a hump," 1650s; earlier "to push, thrust" (c. 1500), of unknown origin. Fig... more . "Raise or bend into a hump," 1650s; earlier "to push, thrust" (c. 1500), of unknown origin. Figurative sense of "a hint, a tip" (a "push" toward a solution or answer), first recorded 1849, led to that of "premonition, presentiment" (1904). (hunch, n.d.) But again, and again, why have these On-Line Etymological digs so easily on hand on one's desktop? After all, beware "etymological intoxication" (Gadamer, 1960(Gadamer, /1989, p. 409), p. 409). Although speaking directly of Plato, this is most probably also an affectionate dig by Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) about his teacher, Martin Heidegger . Why, then, flirt with intoxications? Because they can unexpectedly wrench up coils of suppressed ideas and images, presumed and silenced thoughts and suggestions, out of my most intimate innards. They can suddenly place before me my own unnoticed ancestries being unwittingly dragged behind me, now looming up and around in the trees, in the smoke, in the passings, lamenting. This is what interpretive work does. On purpose. (Jardine, in press) I am being treated for tinnitus. Its proximal cause was muscle strain, last October, turning over a large compost heap and still-strangely co-incident with the yearly flu-shot. Good news is that, so far, this condition comes and goes. It is fascia related. It yields to acupuncture. I'll have days without a peep, then days that are all day. Overall, I can't suss much of a pattern-cause of its appearance and disappearance. When I lie down. When I slump in a not-so-easy chair.
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), 2014
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Jul 1, 2012
“The savage childhood of the human race”
Continuum International Publishing Group eBooks, 2012
“A hitherto concealed experience that transcends thinking from the position of subjectivity”
Continuum International Publishing Group eBooks, 2012
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Nov 1, 2016
The main title of this paper has served me as a warning for those interested in hermeneutic work,... more The main title of this paper has served me as a warning for those interested in hermeneutic work, myself, of course, included. It is from Patrul Rinpoche (1808-1887) in his text "The words of my perfect teacher" (1998, p. 189) and it summons something of the intimate dangers of carefully studying and becoming familiar with the slipstreams of our lives, both those that live in us, and that we, wittingly or otherwise, live within.
Jardine, David W., "On the Integrity of Things: Reflections on the 'Integrated Curriculum'," pp. 171-176 in David W. Jardine, Sharon Friesen, and Patricia Clifford, Curriculum in Abundance. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006
Provides a rationale for curriculum that reflects the integrity rather than the fragmentation of ... more Provides a rationale for curriculum that reflects the integrity rather than the fragmentation of living knowledge
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Nov 1, 2014
Must not be measured by his worth, for then It hath no end. Ross to Siward, on the death of Siwar... more Must not be measured by his worth, for then It hath no end. Ross to Siward, on the death of Siward's son. Macbeth, Act V, Scene VIII Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break. Malcolm to MacDuff. Macbeth, Act IV, Scene III "The individual case . . . is never simply a case; it is not exhausted by being a particular example of a universal law or concept" (Gadamer, 1960(Gadamer, /1989, p. 39), p. 39). There is no such a "thing" as sorrow or grief. It is always this lamenting in this arc of telling, of seasons, of breath and faces. To paraphrase John Caputo (1993), sorrow always involves proper names; grieving is always one's own and, one way or another, in one shape or another, "from it no one can be exempt" (Gadamer, 1960(Gadamer, /1989, p. 356, p. 356). That we might commiserate in such matters is not made possible by each of us deflecting upwards into some governing concept or essence or law or theme under which our sorrows fall. My sorrow does not find much voice or relief in such falling. It is not given words but is taken away and rendered and handed back as bones. "The rule does not comprehend it" (Gadamer, 1960(Gadamer, /1989, p. 39), p. 39). We don't experience our affinity via this abstracting route. Commiseration cannot be sought in experiencing ourselves as examples or instances. Affinity is, instead, a lateral pass, one of kinship, kindness, love. In these matters, I am always, for good or ill, someone, full of gesture
Continuum International Publishing Group eBooks, 2012
It's like making a path through the forest. At first it's rough going, with a lot of obstructions... more It's like making a path through the forest. At first it's rough going, with a lot of obstructions, but returning to it again and again, we clear the way. After a while the ground becomes firm and smooth from being walked on repeatedly. Then we have a good path for walking in the forest. Ajahn Chah from Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away. (2005, 83
“A Hubris Hiding from its Nemesis”
SensePublishers eBooks, 2017
Why do the ideas of multiplicity, diversity, and the arising recognition of a “multifariousness o... more Why do the ideas of multiplicity, diversity, and the arising recognition of a “multifariousness of voices” (Gadamer, 1989, p. 285) persistently resolve themselves into talk of multiple identities? Identity has the potential to become sealed off, separate, and proffered as self-determining and self-defining independently of any other. Can we not be diverse and interdependent without imagining diversity as a splay of separate identities related somehow only post hoc? Affirmations of identity have the potential to make all our relations seem “revocable and provisional” (Gray, 2001, p. 36). It has the potential to be an ecological disaster.
Journal of Family Nursing, May 1, 1999
Does It Rain on Vancouver Island?: Teaching as Storytelling
Curriculum Inquiry, 1987
This paper explores the ecological and pedagogical images hidden within a tale of the author's re... more This paper explores the ecological and pedagogical images hidden within a tale of the author's returning to the placed he was raised and going for a birding walk with some old friends. Cet article explore les images écologiques et pédagogiques cachées dans l'histoire de l'auteur qui revient aux lieux de son enfance et s'en va faire une randonnée d'observation des oiseaux avec quelques vieux amis.
Under the tough old stars" : ecopedagogical essays
The…Readiness…To Be “All Ears”
Routledge eBooks, Nov 24, 2015
This paper explores some of the historical and political ancestries of constructivism. In it, I s... more This paper explores some of the historical and political ancestries of constructivism. In it, I suggest that there are dark and potentially ecologically disastrous themes hidden in the happy use of constructivism in contemporary education. Cet article explore quelque-uns des ancêtres historiques et politiques du constructivisme. Dans ce texte, je donne à penser qu'il y a des thèmes sombres et potentiellement, écologiquement désastreux, cachés dans l'utilisation joyeuse du constructivisme en éducation contemporaine. Our Strength is Also Our Weakness: A Cautionary Tale About Constructivism Accordingly, the spontaneity of understanding becomes the formative principle of receptive matter, and in one stroke we have the old mythology of an intellect which glues and rigs together the world's matter with its own forms. (Heidegger, 1985, p. 70) No sooner have you grabbed hold of it than myth opens out into a fan of a thousand segments. Here the variant is the origin. In each of these diverging stories all the others are reflected, all brush by us like folds of the same cloth. If, out of some perversity of tradition, only one version of some mythical event has come down to us, it is like a body without a shadow, and we must do our best to trace out that invisible shadow. (Calasso, 1993, p. 133
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Papers by David W Jardine