In Closing…: Knitting the Unfamiliar

The wisdom the author gains from a new experience of learning to knit raises questions for her as an educator: What do I take for granted in the learning contexts within which I teach? What feels strangely unfamiliar to my students (children and adults alike)? How is what I do as a teacher, mentor, coach during this experience helpful or harmful? More important, how can I endeavor to learn with them and from them in a way that increases my awareness of what it means to learn? She continues to ponder and inquire, seeking to know and ask more questions about the unfamiliar while knitting.