Exquisite Corpses: Surrealist Portraiture, COVID-19 Curriculum, and the Bio-Educational Child

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Abstract

This creative account explores ¬¬a form curriculum inquiry we term surrealist portraiture as a way of deeply engaging with the “vexingly volatile and constantly changing circumstances” of curriculum inquiry and more particularly the surreal curricular times and spaces of Covid-19 (Bauman, 2007, p.3). Toward these ends ends, we reconfigures data from two qualitative studies that explore a lived curriculum of Covid-19 into a research-based, cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse) composed of three distinct narrative and visual montages titled Data Melt I; TP & Anomie and Curriculum & The Bio-educational Child

Authors

• Jolanta Smolen-Santana, Alvin ISD

• Laura M. Jewett, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley