73.049 - Reconceptualizing Teacher Biographies Through Complex Embodiments, Material Engagements, and Arts-Based Research

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Six teacher educators discuss the reconceptualization of student teachers biographies from a new materialist perspective. Their different projects reflect on a number of questions: What occurs when we understand the lives of student teachers as potential for change, difference, professional reengagement, and rhizomes? What happens when we observe the ways student bodies become animated, affected by challenges and obstructions? What changes when we understand art inquiry in teacher education as an unscripted vibrant material that acts unexpected encounters? What structures of subjectivity, art, and pedagogy can we cultivate which are closer to what Pinar (2009) denominates a sensuous subjectivity, one that grapples with worldliness, desire, affect, creative forces, and the criticality of agency beyond its human qualities?

Sub Unit

• SIG-Arts-Based Educational Research

Chair

• Laura Trafi-Prats, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Papers

• Aesthetic Material Biography as Pedagogical Method in Teacher Education - Jaye Johnson Thiel, The University of Tennessee - Knoxville; Brooke Anne Hofsess, Appalachian State University

• Pedagogies of Contact. Tactic(al) Encounters: Performing Materiality Through Teachers' Biographies - Judit Vidiella, University of Evora

• Becoming Artist-Teachers: Pursuing Rhizomatic Paths - Christine M. Thompson, The Pennsylvania State University - University Park

• Embodying Disney: Experimenting With Radical Senses of Beauty, Feminist Remythification, and Teachers' Subjectivities - Laura Trafi-Prats, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; Gina Ruchalski, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee