Every Seashell Is a Story

Abstract

Living and being with/in education is messy work because we are necessarily products of the worlds we inhabit. Photopoetic inquiry helps us navigate the messiness by drawing us into images where we might contemplate the accompanying text while writing our way into new understandings. This intertextuality explicitly encourages the integration of self and subject and reveals what is hidden while concurrently encouraging us to let go of rigid constructs that limit us. Thinking here of Bill Pinar’s self-shattering and emancipatory reaggregation, I wonder in the attached video how consciousness of lived and living curriculum can help us engage with empathy and understanding when we encounter realities not our own. In opening up these spaces for critical consciousness, photopoetic inquiry cultivates social conscience and becomes central to our pursuit of rehumanizing praxis.