Travel(ing) Tales of Teaching-Learning: Speculative Practices for Thinking/Writing-With

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Abstract

A collaboration between two researchers and two teachers, this paper focuses specifically on our writing process. We read the work of feminist post-colonial scholar and film-maker Trinh T. Minh-Ha (1991; 2011) into our explorations of a post-qualitative inquiry to wonder what new imaginings of teaching and learning are made possible in that process. Extending a “speculative engagement” (Puig de la Bellacasa, 2017) we inquire into relations of becoming and knowing that are rendered through a practice of storytelling where author/narrator/protagonist move continually in and out of each other. In the co-development of these other-worldly stories, we untether ourselves from fixed positions, and understanding that “the source always travels” (Minh-Ha, 2011), open ourselves up to the journeying that writing brings forth.

Authors

• Srikala Naraian, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Maddie Neufeld, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Temieka Brown, New York City Department of Education

• Brandon Guidry, AGEX, Inc.