Pedagogy Is a Messy Affair: A Performative Narrative of Being New. (January 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Müller, Marguerite; Kruger, Frans; Lekoala, Nthabiseng; Mokoena, Nthabiseng
• Other Names: Christ Rebecca C. guest-editor.; Kuby Candace R. guest-editor.; Ulmer Jasmine Brooke guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 26:Number 1(2020)
• Page Start: 89
• Page End: 98
• Publication Date: 2020-01
• Subjects: performative narrative -- post-qualitative inquiry -- transformative pedagogy -- posthumanism; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/1077800419874830
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

This article uses performative writing to explore the pedagogical entanglement of staff, students, and matter at the University of the Free State, South Africa. It is a collaborative narrative in which different voices share the textual stage. Each author contributes to one of the voices to create a performative narrative of how our experiences occur and emerge in this messy, complex, and volatile context. Our story sketches the backgrounds, in-between spaces, and "negative spaces" that pedagogy produces as relational encounters between human and the more-than-human world. We abandon the world of the real and move into a creative collaborative performative narrative space to explore the entanglements that pedagogies produce.