This submission contains the Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group (CMESG), held at Laval University in Québec City, Québec. The CMESG is a group of mathematicians and mathematics educators who meet annually to discuss mathematics education issues at all levels of learning. The aims of the Study…

This paper highlights a distinctive way to research and present issues within education using metaphor and the qualitative narrative methodology known as auto ethnography. Auto ethnographic writing links the personal to the cultural and is recognised as a methodology that combines the method with the writing of the text, which in turn explicates…

Although several art educators have called our attention to the importance of studying visual culture, others have widened the discussion to include material culture and its effects on our lives. Because of growing concern for the value of exploring the personal and social functions of visual and material culture, the purpose of this article is to…

In this article I argue that women's book clubs are significant sites for learning, dialogue and the accumulation of cultural capital, and that research on North American women's book clubs should be expanded to include studies of such groups' consumption of texts by and about women living in the Middle East. Using insights from transnational…

Engaging in a self-study is a multi-faceted activity that involves not only autobiography and theory, but also students and colleagues. Learning from and with colleagues can take many forms. This article discusses the authors' experience with reciprocal classroom observation in a teacher education context. Peer observation supported our learning…

The author, a street musician herself, tells the story of her experiences making a living from playing music in the streets, an activity that she describes as "somewhere between the practice room and the recital hall". (Author/RK)

Presents autobiographical writing as an untapped resource for the historical phenomenology of aging. Interprets the autobiography of Joel Andrews, a farmer who lived from the American Revolution through the Civil War. Argues that Andrews' autobiography reflects and helps accomplish his central task in old age, the religiously sanctioned transition…

Examines the personal life of Oscar Zeta Acosta as revealed in his work "The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo," tracing Acosta's involvement in the Chicano social movement in Los Angeles in the late 1960s and his development of cultural identity and political consciousness. (DMM)

This May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture relates the career of an artist and illustrator of children's books whose best-known works for young children are "Dancing in the Moon" and "Ape in a Cape." School years, apprenticeship, first books, wood engravings, use of illustrations, and the generation gap are highlighted. (EJS)

Describes ways in which the prologue can be used in the classroom to illustrate the basic five-step outline of the essay. (KS)

A Newbery Award-winning author presents episodes from her past that have served as the background to her collection of poems for children. (AEA)

A Caldecott Award-winning author presents a brief description of his early interest in art. (AEA)

The author describes his 25th high school reunion and the memories of adolescence it evoked. (SJL)