What critical moments in learning and teaching change lives? What stories need to be told? This anthology explores life writing as a mode of educational inquiry, one where students and teachers may get a heart of wisdom as they struggle with the tensions and complexities of learning and teaching in challenging circumstances.

Contents: Carl Leggo: Bread Crumbs: Finding My Way in Poetry – Leah C. Fowler: Unlearning Heartlessness, Restorative Education – Teresa Strong-Wilson: Old Narratives Break Apart – Wanda Hurren: Kissing Lessons – Rebecca Luce-Kapler: The Gravity Garden Bruce Hunter: Imagining Mothers: Re-Joyce – Celeste Snowber: Yarnnotes From a Wild Woman Who Loves to Knit – Candace P. Lewko: Encounters with Cracked and Broken Tongues – G. Scott MacLeod: After the War With Hannelore – N. Rochelle Yamagishi: Bereaved – Nané Ariadne Jordan: On the Esoterics of Thread – Erika Hasebe-Ludt/Anne Scholefield: Triumph Street Pedestrians – Veronica Gaylie: A Season for Less – Christi Kramer: Tutelaries of a Place We Came Into – Tasha Henry: Liminal Lessons From Two Islands and One Son – Ahava Shira: The Gates of Butterstone Farm – Lynn Thomas: Confessions of an English Teacher in Francophone Québec – Marguerite Leahy: Mzungu – Priscilla Settee: Travels Through Global Indigenity – Sheila Simpkins: Nigglings From Kurdistan – Hali Heavy Shield: Ókonokistsi – Cynthia Chambers: Spelling and Other Illiteracies – Phong Kuoch: Pedagogy of Papa – Christy Audet: Dezi Was a Drummer – Sean Wiebe: Curricular Fixations and Poetic Tactics – Janet Pletz: A Pedagogy of Hearing – Daniel Scott: So Far From Shore – Daniela Elza: The Shape of Questions – GW Rasberry: Professions of a Stay-at-Home Father and Writer – Margaret Louise Dobson: Conscious Awakening: From Impersonator to Loving Teacher – Avraham Cohen/Heesoon Bai: Minding What Matters: Relationship as Teacher – Heidi Clark: Teacher Burnout: Recovery From a Toxic Condition – Lisa Nucich: Haunting Children – Jackie Seidel: A Curriculum for Miracles – Anita Sinner: Finding Canada in the American Midwest: Life Writing as Public Discourse – Pat Palulis: Eavesdropping as Seductive Conversation – Bruce Hunter: Death of the Black Cat – Alexandra Fidyk: An Ethic of Humility – Hartej Gill: Fieldnotes of a Punjabi-Canadian Researcher – Pauline Sameshima/Yvette Dubel: Blood Trails – Lynn Fels: Each Moment, a Child of Duration – Susan Braley: Floodgates – Patti Fraser: Vampires and Oil Spills – Bruce Hunter: Towards a Definition of Pornography – Tasha Hubbard: Hard to Place – Denise Schellhase: A Social Study of the Double Helix – Vicki Kelly: A Métis Manifesto.