Métissage – somewhere between hope and happening

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Vicars, Mark ORCID: 0000-0003-0684-2180, Manning-Lewis, Tanya ORCID: 0000-0003-2938-9884, Maddalozzo, Frances M, Zaid-Kilani, Dima ORCID: 0009-0006-8871-8798 and Savage, Raymond ORCID: 0009-0005-2154-436X (2024) Métissage – somewhere between hope and happening. Qualitative Research Journal, 24 (5). pp. 602-611. ISSN 1443-9883

Abstract

Purpose: Within minutes, our group, who had no prior introduction, began to learn the value of emerging from a relational space of (re)presenting and (re)storying our experiences. “I” became “We”, which became “Us” Design/methodology/approach: Recently, the seventh bi-annual conference of the World Federation for Teacher Education 2023 focused on the theme of “Re-imagining Teacher Education: From Words to Action.” During the session on métissage as methodology, participants from four different countries, three ethnic backgrounds and gender and sexual differences were invited into dialogue to explore the nuances of our identities, academic positions and life experiences. Findings: Doing métissage as novices, our subsequent discussion problematized the perpetuation of procedural narratives that contested the Cartesian cuts of methodological normalcy. Originality/value: Sharing our stories of self in our group we referenced how institutional frameworks had shaped and were reconstructing contexts for our being and belonging in the academy. In our narrating vulnerability we were once again located in telling relations to do with identity, power and social being. Jones (2015, p. 8) has asked. “Other than dry academic reports, how can we retell these stories in sensitive and ethical ways to wider audiences? How do the stories themselves inspire creativity in retelling them? How can we involve participants in the retelling of their stories?”

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Item type Article
URI https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/49098
DOI 10.1108/QRJ-03-2024-0052
Official URL https://doi.org/10.1108/qrj-03-2024-0052
Subjects Current > FOR (2020) Classification > 4519 Other Indigenous data, methodologies and global Indigenous studies
Current > Division/Research > College of Arts and Education
Keywords decolonising methodologies, storytelling
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