1 1 Back to the Basics of Teaching and Learning: "Thinking the World Together" 2 nd Edition David W. Jardine, Sharon Friesen & Patricia Clifford Table of Contents FOREWORD William E. Doll, Louisiana State University PREFACE David W. Jardine CHAPTER ONE Introduction: An Interpretive Reading of “Back To the Basics” David W. Jardine, Patricia Clifford and Sharon Friesen CHAPTER TWO: A Curious Plan: Managing on the Twelfth Patricia Clifford & Sharon Friesen CHAPTER THREE: Cleaving with Affection: On Grain Elevators and the Cultivation of Memory David W. Jardine, Michelle Bastock, Jennifer George & Judy Martin CHAPTER FOUR: Children’s Literacy, the Biblia Pauperum and the Wiles of Images Michelle Bastock & David W. Jardine CHAPTER FIVE: Whatever happens to him happens to us: Reading Coyote Reading the World Patricia Clifford, Sharon Friesen and David W. Jardine CHAPTER SIX: The Transgressive Energy of Mythic Wives and Wilful Children: Old Stories for New Times Patricia Clifford and Sharon Friesen CHAPTER SEVEN: Landscapes of loss: On the Original Difficulties of Reading Patricia Clifford and Sharon Friesen CHAPTER EIGHT: "Because it Shows us the Way at Night": On Animism, Writing and the Re-Animation of Piagetian Theory David W. Jardine CHAPTER NINE: Meditations on community, memory and the intergenerational Character of mathematical truth Sharon Friesen, Patricia Clifford & David W. Jardine CHAPTER TEN: A play on the wickedness of undone sums, including a brief mytho-phenomenology of "x" and some speculations on the effects of its peculiar absence in elementary mathematics education David W. Jardine and Sharon Friesen CHAPTER ELEVEN: Math: Teaching it better Sharon Friesen CHAPTER TWELVE: "The stubborn particulars of grace." David W. Jardine CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Birding lessons and the Teachings of Cicadas David W. Jardine CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Surroundings David W. Jardine CHAPTER FIFTEEN: "In these shoes is the silent call of the earth": Meditations on Curriculum integration, conceptual violence and the ecologies of community and place. David W. Jardine, Annette LaGrange and Beth Everest