Re-imagining Arts Integration: Rhizomatic Relations to the Every Day Pauline Sameshima Sean Wiebe Rita Irwin

Pinar, Reynolds, Slattery &Taubman 1995, p. 605

a dynamic system with no point of origin . . . in complex relation to one another

The rhizomatic relation of the everyday relies on integration and complexity for its strength.

A/r/tographer: artist / researcher / teacher

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Integration is messy

Imagining and forming different relationships

Complication

Teachers experiencing the artist process

Welcome complexity

Embodied Aesthetic Curriculum Increasing receptivity Fostering skills of relationality Modeling wholeness-in-process Layering inquiry strategies Acknowledging ecological resonances

The most difficult learning is to come to know actually and to the very foundations what we already know. Such learning, with which we are here solely concerned, demands dwelling continually on what appears to be nearest to us.” Heidegger, 1977, p. 252

Resists definition and is holistic

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