The Prophet and the Dream: Toward a HistoFuturist Approach to Education Research (Poster 16)

• In Event: AERA Promising Scholarship in Education Research: Dissertation Fellows and Their Research
  In Invited Poster Session: AERA Promising Scholarship in Education Research: Dissertation Fellows and Their Research Poster Session

Abstract

Rooted in the work of Octavia Butler, who identified as a “HistoFuturist”—one who extrapolates from past and present sociohistorical contexts to speculate about possible futures (Streeby, 2018)—my dissertation positioned HistoFuturity as a tool for envisioning hopeful educational futures grounded in critical scholarship. I explored the potential of HistoFuturist approaches to activate transdisciplinary knowledge generation in the field of education. To do so, I (1) articulated how HistoFuturity can generate an epistemological (re)orientation within education research, (2) investigated how HistoFuturity functions as a theory of change in education and (3) piloted an approach to conducting transformative HistoFuturist education research with a multidisciplinary group of early-career education scholars.

Author

• Samuela Mouzaoir, Michigan State University