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It has been almost 3 months. Many things have happened. Onlya week and a half to go before heading back to Canada. I have been living on Barber Avenue in Penrith, Australia. There have been many ups and downs. More ups than downs. In a week, I can call myself a teacher. Yet I feel there is so much more to learn. I love this time of year in Australia. The Jacarandas are in full bloom. While several different paths are on the future horizon, I go home to uncertainty. Once again travelling will commence. I am divided by perceptions of self-worth. What type of life will I choose? I feel much closer to self-awareness, and yet so much further from the truth. The next year will be a quest for knowledge. I will live the life of a worker. No more money spent abusively … but rather only on things of necessity. I must prepare myself mentally for what is about to come.
* I would like to thank Professor Zhang Hua for inviting me to participate at the 2nd International Conference on the Reform of Curriculum & Teaching and Teacher Development. I would also like to thank Karen Qian for providing the necessary information and support prior to my departure for Hangzhou. I would also like to thank all the professors and graduate students who facilitated my lived experiences while in Hangzhou. I was deeply honored and grateful to be once again a “guest” and to have an opportunity to share the innovative research currently taking place within Canadian curriculum studies in relation to our differing interdisciplinary intellectual histories, institutional programs for teacher development, and innovations in life writing research methodologies either here or back in Canada. Finally, I would like to thank Tasha Ausman for her careful and thoughtful editorial suggestions.
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Ng-A-Fook, N. (2015). Autobiography, Intellectual Topographies, and Teacher Education. In: Hua, Z., Pinar, W.F. (eds) Autobiography and Teacher Development in China. Curriculum Studies Worldwide. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137382405_6
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