Pedagogy Is a Messy Affair: A Performative Narrative of Being New

Müller, Marguerite; Kruger, Frans; Lekoala, Nthabiseng; Mokoena, Nthabiseng

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.

Citation

Müller, M., Kruger, F., Lekoala, N., & Mokoena, N. (2020). Pedagogy Is a Messy Affair: A Performative Narrative of Being New. Qualitative Inquiry, 26(1), 89-98. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800419874830

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Sep 9, 2019
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2020
• Deposit Date: Aug 19, 2024
• Journal: Qualitative Inquiry
• Print ISSN: 1077-8004
• Electronic ISSN: 1552-7565
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 89-98
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800419874830
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/38383413
• Publisher URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077800419874830