Curriculum and Pedagogy: ‘Commonsense’
Kumashiro addresses commonsense in both education and daily life. He explains it as the things that both he and the residents of the village he stays in in Nepal have taken for granted, such as eating three meals a day, which is the norm in most of North America but is seen as strange in Nepal. He even says that ways of cooking and the ingredients used were different in Nepal from what he was used to and it made…