Lessons from a Chambered Nautilus
Titles of Presentations in a Panel
The Decolonial Compass - Nadia Khan-Roopnarine, Molloy College
Channeling Momentum for Social Justice Praxis within the Currents of Catholic School Culture - Nicholas Vasiliades, Molloy College
Black Existentialism - Edward Muhammad, Georgia Southern University
Abstract
This session is presented in the spirit of learning from the world about curriculum through relationships that span geographies, temporalities, and biospheres. To focus our attention, we are inspired by the chambered nautilus, a sea mollusc famous for its uniquely segmented, spiraling shell. The exponential growth of the nautilus spiral is essential to the survival of the individual mollusc and its species. As its shell grows, the nautilus moves into the outer segments of the spiral, using the inner segments to regulate buoyancy, sinking into or rising from ocean depths by pulling and pushing water in and out of its shell. The shell’s spiraling growth reinforces its structural integrity, allowing the nautilus to feed at the seafloor and deposit its eggs in the cracks of coral reefs. The nautilus teaches us that reflexivity, growth and hope sustain its life force. It grows inward and outward to thrive and gestate generations. Papers in this session attend to reflexivity, growth and hope in curriculum and human thriving.
Presentation Description
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Location
Room 106
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Khan-Roopnarine, Nadia; Vasiliades, Nicholas; and Muhammad, E. Anthony, "Lessons from a Chambered Nautilus" (2022). Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative. 6.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cssc/2022/2022/6
Lessons from a Chambered Nautilus
Room 106
This session is presented in the spirit of learning from the world about curriculum through relationships that span geographies, temporalities, and biospheres. To focus our attention, we are inspired by the chambered nautilus, a sea mollusc famous for its uniquely segmented, spiraling shell. The exponential growth of the nautilus spiral is essential to the survival of the individual mollusc and its species. As its shell grows, the nautilus moves into the outer segments of the spiral, using the inner segments to regulate buoyancy, sinking into or rising from ocean depths by pulling and pushing water in and out of its shell. The shell’s spiraling growth reinforces its structural integrity, allowing the nautilus to feed at the seafloor and deposit its eggs in the cracks of coral reefs. The nautilus teaches us that reflexivity, growth and hope sustain its life force. It grows inward and outward to thrive and gestate generations. Papers in this session attend to reflexivity, growth and hope in curriculum and human thriving.
