Continuing to Make Sense of a Deweyan-Inspired Narrative Conception of Hope

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Abstract

This paper represents what I am learning, a year after being alongside two teachers, as we made sense of their experiences of working with a set of hope-focused practices (LeMay, Edey, & Larsen, 2008). Using narrative inquiry as my methodology, I attend to the commonplaces of temporality, sociality and place (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000) as I reflect backward and forward on post-secondary professional knowledge landscapes (Clandinin & Connelly, 1995) as a way of continuing to make sense of my experiences with the Deweyn-inspired narrative conception of hope (reference removed). As such, this paper attends to the possibilities of creating educative (Dewey, 1938) and democratized spaces that inspire learning who we are and are becoming alongside along the way (Bateson, 1994).

Author

• Lenora Marie LeMay, Portage College