Cartographies as spaces of inquiry to explore of teachers’ nomadic learning trajectories

Authors

  • Fernando Hernandez-Hernandez University of Barcelona
  • Juana Maria Sancho Gil Universidad de Barcelona
  • Maria Domingo-Coscollola Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/der.2018.33.105-119

Keywords:

Post-qualitative research, secondary school teachers, nomadology, entanglement, affects, gestures.

Abstract

This paper is part of a research project, in which secondary teachers were invited to generate cartographies, and participate in conversations about the scenarios and where they learn and the movements they make, inside and outside school. They were also invited to think about what they valued of this performative act as a source of knowledge and experience. By generating cartographies, as a visual and textual epistemological and methodological move, we inquire those interstices, displacements, instable journeys, ways of knowing, assemblages and entanglement through which teachers explore and perform their nomadic learning paths. The main aim of this research process it is no longer about getting results but generating and putting into action concepts such as rhizome, intensity, affect, gesture, displacement, metaphor. Concepts that are helping us to think about how learning gets through teachers’ movements and trajectories. Specifically, in this paper, we reflect on how nomadism localizes learning not as an outcome but as an activity staged within a processual, relational and performative ontology of becoming. In addition, we consider how all these processes affect us, as teachers and researchers.

Author Biographies

Fernando Hernandez-Hernandez, University of Barcelona

Unit of Cultural Pedagogies

Fine Arts Faculty

University of Barcelona

Pay Gargallo 4.

08028 Barcelona

Juana Maria Sancho Gil, Universidad de Barcelona

D. Didàctica i Organització Educativa    
Universitat de Barcelona
P. Vall d'Hebron, 171                 
08035 Barcelona (Spain)

Maria Domingo-Coscollola, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

Facultat d'Educació

Campus Barcelona. Edificis Gamma i Delta

Terré, 11-19

08017 Barcelona

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2018-06-29