The Quilting Challenge: for every classroom
SEED Co-director Emily Style's poem envisions education through the powerful metaphor of quilting. This poem will be published in the November 2013 issue of English Journal as part of her article "Curriculum as Encounter: Selves and Shelves."
Quilts are back in fashion
needless to say
it works this way:
students bring their own cloth patches
teachers provide needles and thread
then learn so-and-so’s name
as part of the art
of classroom quilting
Watch as they practice
their stitch in time
fashioning their pieces
creating their own covering
unraveling threads
often re-stitching
in a curriculum which needles them
but also beckons their involvement
with its production of warmth
For the rank-and-file
this is no ordinary production line
rather a sewing circle
gathering regularly
across time
Comments
Oh Emily! Your words… Thank you!