Borrowing from a Future: Kuwento as Speculative Fiction

• In Event: AERA Research in Progress Roundtable Session One
  In Invited Roundtable: Research-in-Progress RT052 (Wednesday)

Abstract

Schools remain slow to adopt curriculum reflecting our increasingly diverse student body (Young et al., 2024) and educational movements have floundered in altering curriculum while continuing to promote western ideals, standardization, and measurable outcomes (Pinar, 2019). Narrative writing offers fertile ground for students to think with/through and bring funds of knowledge into classrooms for more just and affirmative co-constitutive worlding (Haraway, 2016). This study explores narrative writing as an embodied activity where writers recognize and affirm relational ecologies of becoming (Barad, 2007). For this study and the possibility of a more just future generated within classrooms with students, I have chosen elements reflecting my desired relating to/with the world—-a posthumanist/relational materialist perspective, speculative fiction writing, Filipina/o/x folklore, and kuwento.

Author

• Rochelle Zuniga, Florida International University