Ma is a curriculum. The Japanese concept of ma refers to the interval between two markers. Ma is somatically constructed by a deliberate attentive consciousness to what simultaneously is expressed repressed or suppressed between two structures. In a dialectic exploration the spaces betweenprivate/public teacher/student old/new self/other among othersare probed in ways that contribute to the significant research in teaching and learning that has been undertaken in the last few decades. Material culture is the study of belief systems behaviours and perceptions through artefacts and physical objects and is central to the socialization of human beings into culture. The analysis of cultural materials offers sites for concretizing the self and the self in context. New materiality challenges assumptions and clichés and allows for possibilities not yet imagined perhaps even inconceivable possibilities. New materiality approaches accept that matter itself has agency. As such this book investigates the intersections at the core of ma engagements wherein the investigations create something new in order to demonstrate the layers of the teaching and learning self. Interpretations of the concept of ma articulate new definitions to improve the conditions practices products and pedagogies of being a teacher/learner in the twenty-first century. Ma is a site for epistemological understandings threshold learnings and self and curriculum becomings. . Language: English