Smallest Circles First

Mindy R. Carter is an associate professor and the director of teacher education at McGill University.

• Foreword by Tom Dearhouse1.Starting with the Smallest Circles FirstTeacher Agency, Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the Arts CurriculumLanguage, Culture, and Religion in Quebec EducationAre the Arts the Answer?VignettesAbout This Book2. Walk a Mile in Someone Else’s Shoes: Situating Theories and MethodsIdentity, Subjectivity, and Posthumanism Arts-Based Educational Research (ABER)Narrative InquiryVignettes and Constant Comparison for Data AnalysisMaking Sense of the Data, Saturation, and Validity3. We Start Here: Narratives, Vignettes, and AnalysisNarrativesMonologue: I’m Still Canadian, Dad!Appropriation and EmbodimentCentring Oneself within a Community of PracticeDiscussion4. Weaving Together Understandings across VignettesTheme 1: Risk and Learning as RuptureTheme 2: BelongingTheme 3: Counter-narratives5. Full circleUnfolding’s Towards an Instructional Model for Belonging and Becoming by Learning through/with DramaLearning ResponsibilitiesNew Directions: Learning beyond the artsComing full CircleAppendicesAppendix 1: Sing the Brave Song: This Isn’t Over!Appendix 2: Reconciliation!Appendix 3: Monologue: I’m Still Canadian, Dad!GlossaryReferences