Angles, Filters, and Narrative Images: Reflections on Contextualized Urban Inquiry as a Series of "Narrative Selfies"

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Abstract

In this paper, a team of three researchers--diverse in age, experience, and culture--re-story their individual accounts of a disruptive event in the field. By burrowing into each interpretation, each retelling reveals cultural and experiential perspectives on the event. These reflections lead to a broadening of context and ambiguity of image on the greater landscape of urban education in the United States. Using the metaphor of “Narrative Selfie” the researchers explore embodied knowledge as a filter, individual experience as an angle, and they co-construct a convergent image of the event captioned by wonderings and open to further inquiry.

Authors

• Chestin T. Auzenne-Curl, Texas A&M University - College Station

• Cheryl J. Craig, Texas A&M University - College Station

• Tenesha Gale, Texas A&M University - College Station