title: Patterns of inquiry: curriculum as life experience.
abstract: Readers are invited to be actors in a text-based theatre, drawn into the stories with their own experiences and discerning patterns that reveal a narrative unity. I show how curriculum-building is inclusive of a teacher's autobiography, as well as the theoretical/philosophical commitments significant for teaching-learning. This is accomplished through thinking narratively about an experience with my Dad in the healthcare system while simultaneously teaching theory-guided nursing in higher education. Health as expanding consciousness is revealed through a research-as-praxis process that is the content for inquiry.
authors: University of Ontario Institute of Technology.
authors: Gail M
authors: GM
authors: Lindsay
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D009742:Nursing Theory; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*