ABSTRACT
When contemplating curriculum theory and studies as a Canadian professor in education, two specific moments in my educational experience still remain with me as profoundly significant: meeting Ted Tetsuo Aoki and meeting William F. Pinar. These two people and their work continue to influence my thinking, my theorizing, my pedagogy, and my being in education. This writing focuses on my experience of learning with Professor Aoki because I met him first, and he was my introduction into the field of curriculum studies. My educational apprenticeships with him, first in 1985 and then again in 1994, served as a kind of DNA substrate for my still-abiding life in curriculum theory.
