Inside a Box: Using Objects To Collaboratively Narrate Educator Experiences of Transformation in Higher Education

Marguerite Müller
2019 Educational Research for Social Change  
This article is a reflection on the use of object memory in creating a collaborative artsbased narrative that explores educator experiences with transformation in higher education. The collaborative arts-based narrative that I present here emerged from my doctoral thesis in which I collaborated with participants to explore how our memories and experiences could help us understand and approach issues of social justice in education. In this article, I reflect on the way in which memory objects
more » ... ded the creation of a collaborative arts-based narrative of educators' autobiographical experiences, educational encounters, and anti-oppressive education. Memory objects are used to explore educator identity, subjectivity, and experience in relation to issues of social change and social justice in higher education. Through this exploration, I hope to highlight the entanglement of context, experience, and the theoretical understandings of social justice and anti-oppressive education. The aim of this article is to reflect on how objects were used to make new connections and exciting discoveries through a collaborative narrative of memories and experiences of educators working towards social change in higher education.
doi:10.17159/2221-4070/2018/v8i1a4 fatcat:m4ewzn3pqvcjjcg4gr5nac7d3m