As an aside, I continue to find it interesting that how we pronounce the word “content” plays a role in my thinking. It could be, the stuff we teach, as in content-area disciplines. Or it could be, I am content with the world, happy and joyful. Very different connotation, obviously, and yet, one would hope the first would slide into the second.
Content, as in school and learning, is not a bad thing. We gather what we know and try to make sense of it as learners. As teachers, we often do narrow our expertise into some field of study or area of discipline, so that we can go deeper and bring that deeper knowledge to our students. And for ourselves.
Where things go awry is when policy makers and large publishing companies start to dictate the terms of learning and force us into pigeon holes of content disciplines, as if the walls were solid instead of flexible.
Yeah, I am not “content” with that.
🙂
Kevin