Common Worlding Methods: Enacting Empirical Postqualitative Educational Research

Session Type: Workshop

Abstract

This workshop will explore more-than-human ‘common worlding’ methods that put post-qualitative theories into practice. These methods move beyond traditional human-centric approaches to data collection and attend, instead, to the mutually-constituting relations within interconnected human and nonhuman ‘common worlds’. The workshop will begin with presenters introducing participants to common worlding methods such as tracing entangled multispecies relations, engaging with nonhumans as active research subjects, learning to being affected by the world, and thinking collectively in the presence of nonhuman others. These methods are drawn from their common world research in Canada, Hong Kong and Australia. Participants will then be invited to take part in series of activities, including discussions about the limits and possibilities of these methods

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chair

• Pauliina Rautio, University of Oulu

Papers

• Introducing Common Worlding Methods - Affrica Taylor, University of Canberra; Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, University of Victoria; Mindy Blaise, Victoria University - Melbourne