ABSTRACT
Aoki has been a guide for the author's autobiographical writing that considers place since she first encountered his work about ten years ago. His writing was included in the coursework for the author's Master's in Education degree at The University of British Columbia. Throughout his writing, Aoki attempts to articulate the ambiguous space of being both an insider and an outsider in the place he was born and calls home. Inquiring into the ways in which communities of people with historical and cultural difference may live well together is a common theme in Aoki's curriculum theorizing. Dwelling with the complexities of belonging in place, Aoki analyses the experiences in his own life. Writing of personal experiences, Aoki transforms the unique and personal into a theory of living curriculum for many. Narrative exploration of the author's civic particularity started to take form in a course focused on the work of Aoki with William Pinar.
