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The Covid-19 pandemic certainly amplifies the extent to which curriculum is adaptable, responsive, and proactive. These vulnerabilities, while daunting, can perhaps be welcomed as an invitation to reposition curricular priorities. Covid-19 reveals that an overreliance on the “curriculum as planned” and a continued absence of “the forgetful curriculum” will no longer suffice. The fragility of life and the sources that make life and living possible are often left out of curricular and policy imaginings. This article seeks guidance from Maulana Rumi’s story “The Graduate and the Boatman” and poem “One Task” to guide a possible reframing of a curriculum that remembers embodied knowledge and the ecological sources that unite all life forms. Embodied knowledge and ecological philosophies may offer ways to refocus curricula that can help youth to turn inward, courageously contemplate the difficult questions of life, and understand that unprecedented circumstances can be generative.

The spirit and intent of this reflection is to open up the ways in which the “single storying” of Islam and Muslims limits more ethical forms of relationality. This reflective piece seeks to make evident the ways in which limited representations of particular faith traditions produces feelings of isolation, exclusion and a sense of disconnect from others. Drawing upon métissage principles, this reflection will elucidate lived experiences on their own terms. Métissage as a research sensibility and political praxis can validate ways of knowing and being that are often denied.

This paper explores how holistic-guided, sacred, ecological insights can support youth in their healing journeys from the individual and systemic violence of colonial exclusions. Drawing upon guidance from Indigenous sharing circle philosophies and sacred ecological insights, this article contends that the coming together of similarities and differences can generate the ethic of “wisdom relationality” (Kasamali, 2019) and promote healing. This theorizing is guided by the métissage sensibility and is supported by research conducted with an Alberta, Aboriginal Studies 30, secondary, high school class. By concentrating on experiences of four former Aboriginal Studies 30 students, this article illuminates their key learnings acquired from reconnecting with the healing energy that flows from Indigenous sharing circle philosophies. The article demonstrates that by reconsidering difference and responding to colonial exclusions from the place of holism inspires the students to achieve freedom, agency and in doing so, restores their sense of balance.