Entanglements and the Homewardness of Inquiry

• In Event: Curriculums of Place and Identity

Abstract

This paper attends to the homewardness of inquiry understood through Karen Barad’s (2007) theorization of entanglement and curriculum theory’s tradition of place studies, undertaken with particular attention to the writings of Joe Kincheloe and William Pinar (1991) and Brian Casemore (2008). When supported by the intra-active properties of entanglement, the study of place, conceived here as the flux of reality in its becoming, opens possibilities for interrogating inquiry. Connections between researchers and their work involve intra-active relationality which must be accounted for to ensure equitable research processes. Across this paper, homewardness signifies the complicated process one must undergo in exploration and interrogation of the forces that continuously shape one’s being equitable processes and results.

Author

• Alexandra L. Page, Florida International University
  Presenting Author