Faculty Publications
Publication Date
2013
Disciplines
Elementary Education and Teaching | Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education
Abstract
This analysis is experimental: we attempt to read data with the work of Karen Barad and in doing so ‘see’ teacher-student writing conferences (a common pedagogy of US elementary school writing) as intra-activity. Data were gathered during teacher-student writing conferences in a grade five US classroom over a six week period. One conference between a researcher and a male Latino student, a Student of Labels, is diffracted. Reading and writing and thinking with Barad disrupts our habitual ways of privileging language as representational. Rather, we consider the material-discursive practices of schooling that produce what comes to matter, leading us to reimage the teacher-student writing conference as entangled becoming-writingconferencing, speaking to the multiplicity of participants, merging of bodies, continual movement, open-ended possibilities, and anticipated transformation of intra-action.
Document Type
Accepted Version
Rights
This is an electronic version of an article published in Gender and Education, volume 25, issue 3, 2013, pages 722-737. Gender and Education is available online at: doi:10.1080/09540253.2013.819970
Original Citation
Donna Kalmbach Phillips and Mindy Legard Larson
The teacher-student writing conference reimaged: Entangled becoming-writingconferencing.
Gender and Education, 2013, volume 25, issue 3, pages 722-737
doi:10.1080/09540253.2013.819970
DigitalCommons@Linfield Citation
Phillips, Donna Kalmbach and Larson, Mindy Legard, "The Teacher-Student Writing Conference Reimaged: Entangled Becoming-Writingconferencing" (2013). Faculty Publications. Accepted Version. Submission 8.
https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/educfac_pubs/8
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Elementary Education and Teaching Commons, Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education Commons
Comments
This article is the author-created version that incorporates referee comments. It is the accepted-for-publication version. The content of this version may be identical to the published version (the version of record) save for value-added elements provided by the publisher (e.g., copy editing, layout changes, or branding consistent with the rest of the publication).