HistoFuturity As a Metatheory of Educational Change

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 11:45 am - Gold 4
  In Roundtable Session: Nested Realities: School, Society, and Transformation in Education

Abstract

I develop HistoFuturity, an approach to research created by trailblazing author and thinker Octavia E. Butler, as a metatheory for conducting transformative education research. Drawing on empirical research, Black feminist speculative praxis, and transdisciplinary reviews of existing literature, I create a framework that coordinates our education research approaches to critically examine our place in history, while leveraging anticipatory capacity and speculative imagination to envision more beautiful educational futures. I then “test” this framework by discussing it with eight education experts across subfields and career stages. In doing so, I argue that a key obstacle to educational change the lack of visionary coordination across disciplines, methodologies, and communities of practice towards a shared and clearly articulated aim.

Author

• Samuela Mouzaoir, Michigan State University