ABSTRACT
Setterfield’s quotation calls us to consider the complex interconnections when lives meet or become interwoven. Setterfield’s words illuminate a frame for a narrative inquiry of how curriculum can reflect the lives of all those it affects. This chapter begins this narrative inquiry with research puzzles around children’s experiences both in and out of school. It focuses on the research on one child, newly arrived to Canada, and her mother’s lived and told stories. The chapter considers how these stories shaped in-classroom curriculum making as well as how the in-classroom curriculum making shaped the lives of this child and her mother. It provides six story fragments to show how the stories can touch the child’s life, her family’s life, the teacher’s life, and other children’s lives in the classroom. Family stories appear to be so tightly woven that, even when one tries to loosen the strands, each story in the web continues to reverberate through each child’s curriculum of life.
