Inclusive Classrooms: A Confessional Tale on a Métissage

Resumo

This article is written as a confessional tale of the authors’ experience of conducting a métissage research process on inclusive classrooms within a course as part of a graduate program. Amanda, the lead author, is a queer elementary school teacher, researching the 2SLGBTQIA+ community within local classrooms and schools, and the Tim is their instructor in a research methods course. Together, we worked to explore the métissage methodology through a confessional tale to unpack the process and to frame the performance piece shared as an anonymously read métissage based on three participants’ voices: (a) a teacher and parent of a child with a disability, (b) an Indigenous teacher and (c) the lead author’s voice as a queer teacher. As Kluge (2001) explained, confessional tales represent the researcher’s personal account through the reflexive process that they experienced in the beginning, during, and at the end of the research process. Confessional tale is the postscript that follows the research progression in a highly personal diary-like format (Van Maanen, 1988). A métissage is an arts-based research methodology where a series of narrative writings by single authors are woven together to create a larger, thematic text, with the intent of “transformation from the inside out” (Worley, 2006, p. 518). In this article, therefore, we offer insights from Amanda's reflective comments, with their critical friend Tim (course instructor), on both the métissage process and their commitme

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Artigo

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Educação

Ano

2023

Idioma

Inglês

Licença

CC BY-NC-ND

DOI

10.37119/ojs2023.v28i2a.700

Como citar (ABNT)

CULVER, Amanda; HOPPER, Tim. Inclusive Classrooms: A Confessional Tale on a Métissage. in education, v. 28, n. 2, p. 21-39, 2023. DOI: 10.37119/ojs2023.v28i2a.700.