Rethinking Teacher Professional Learning: Curating Possibility Through Diffractive Methodologies

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  In Roundtable Session: Exploring Posthuman and Postfoundational Modes of Inquiry Across Educational Settings (Table 6)

Abstract

Using concepts centered in diffractive methodologies (Barad, 2007) and assemblage (Deleuze & Guattai, 1987), this conceptual paper seeks to analyze a graduate-level teacher professional learning program through posthumanist and Indigenous lenses. We explore immanent possibilities of becoming through teacher collaborative inquiry centered in relational intra-actions designed to reconfigure teacher practice. We include examples of emergent teacher thinking.

Authors

• Cathy A. Coulter, University of Alaska - Anchorage

• Lisa K. Richardson, University of Alaska - Southeast