<p> Curriculum as Conversation: Transforming Traditions of Teaching and Learning Arthur N. Applebee</p><p>Chapters 1-3: Examining “Cultural Traditions of Knowing and Doing”</p><p>Why have we “…ended up with schools and colleges that, while not particularly exciting places for teachers or students, have passed virtually unchanged through wave after wave of educational reform[?] The answer, I believe, lies in the ways we have thought about cultural traditions of knowing and doing, about what students should know, and about how to embed that knowledge in specific curricula” (vii).</p><p>Applebee asks, “What does it mean to enter into culturally significant traditions of knowing and doing?”</p><p>1. Identify 4-6 cultural traditions with which you are familiar and/ or in which you participate. List them here:</p><p>2. Choose one and briefly analyze the assumptions and beliefs that are embedded in your chosen tradition and its enactment.</p><p>3. Answer Applebee’s question:</p><p>Group 1: for yourself as an individual</p><p>Group 2: for yourself as a MA candidate (student)</p><p>Group 3: as a teacher</p>