ABSTRACT
In his work on teaching and curriculum, Aoki (1987/2005) emphasizes the significance of telling and reflecting on our personal stories of experience. We cannot understand our place in the world and our relationship to others with-out first acknowledging the significance of these narratives and the tensions and wonderings that they raise. As Aoki questions,
What are the personal and communal stories that have been told, are being told, and will yet be told? Who are we that tell these stories, and what indeed do these stories tell? And, I add, what are the questions to which these stories are answers?… I present myself not so much to tell stories, but rather to participate in a questioning of the questions we typically ask when we, in and through our very living, tell our stories—stories that inevitably tell who we are and, as well, our understanding of how our world is. (p. 349)
