Fragments of a Gesture: Exploring Curriculum Encounters Through a Minor Lens

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Abstract

This paper engages with video images that were recorded during a research project in a public school in Toronto, Canada. Drawing on Erin Manning’s (2016) critical engagement with aesthetics, I engage in a ‘minor practice’ that encourages a rethinking of the image as a fragment of a gesture that activates the intensive capacity of bodies to think. I will be working with video images as data/documentation. I will also be working with images as aesthetic texts that are composed of the more-than-human. In doing so, I critically engage with aesthetics and the ontological turn in curriculum studies.

Author

• Nikki Rotas, Rowan University