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Acknowledgments
This book is based on my doctoral work in the Center for Cross-Faculty Inquiry in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. I am very grateful to those who helped shape that dissertation—in particular Dr. Carl Leggo, Dr. Tony Clarke, Dr. Karen Meyer, and Dr. Julie Diamond. I am also very thankful for the various grants, scholarships, and fellowships I received while working on this book, and I wish to thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the University of British Columbia, and the Faculty of Education at the same university for their support. I am particularly pleased to have been awarded the Ted Aoki Prize for the outstanding dissertation in Curriculum Studies for 2006–2007 from which this book springs.
These acknowledgments would not be complete without mentioning my mother and father who gave me life and opportunity. In particular, I want to recognize my dad who told me, “The main thing that stops people is what they can think of. If you can think of it, you can do it.” I have done my utmost to carry his message forward, and this book is a concerted effort in that direction. Acknowledgment of my grandparents, who voyaged across an ocean at the beginning of the last century, is central. Their pioneering spirit insinuated itself into me.