An Embodied Becoming-Other: Material Feminism, Curriculum, and the Mutually Entangled Spirit

• In Event: Roundtable Session 27
  In Roundtable Session: Renegade Materialisms

Abstract

This paper discusses the implications of onto-epistimologies within the intersections of New Materialism (e.g., Barad, 2007), material feminism (e.g., Grosz, 2010), and spirituality on curricular practices (e.g., Huebner, 1999; Pinar, 2012, Slattery, 2013). The authors use a duoethnographic approach (Norris, Sawyer, & Lund, 2012) within a postmodern emergent framework (Somerville, 2007) to explore their mutual entanglements and becoming-other in wrestling with the “complicated conversation” that is curriculum (Pinar, 2012, p. 44). This paper contributes to a growing body of work (e.g., Snaza, under contract) that grapples with the consequences of taking on these ontological beliefs in the field of curriculum.

Authors

• Alycia M. Elfreich, Indiana University - Indianapolis

• Kirsten Robbins, Indiana University - IUPUI