So here's the thing. I need to create a new hope kit to help me on my next leg of my journey. As many of you know, I am working to understand why we need to make hope visible in the lives of students in the classroom as part of my doctorate. Since I am in my first year of the doctorate program, I have not started my research per se. However, I have been doing lots of writing, conversing and story telling, which has led me to realize that I need new hope tools.
The first hope tool that I am going to add to my hope kit* (I have made two in the last nine years) is the following question from Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed:
"What can we do now in order to be able to do tomorrow what we are unable to do today?"
* For more information on Hope Kits check out the Nurturing Hopeful Souls resource available at www.ualberta.ca/hope under the 'Good Reads' Section.
