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Chapter 2
The Shadowy Edges of the Path: Shifting Power From the Teacher to the Students
We will direct ourselves to: a type of inquiry that is critical, aware, and hopeful; and living contexts we find ourselves in every day. In so doing, we will quietly disrupt the surrounding social imaginary (there are multiple imaginaries in the world) by examining our senses—our ability to imagine ourselves outside the social matrix. My hypothesis, albeit value loaded, is that the inquiries we perform…as researchers, practice an awareness of the intricate relationship between ourselves (an interpreter) and our research contexts (the living world).
—Meyer (2004)
The writing for this book has been a drama in my inner world about what matters to me in education and in life. Like my classrooms where I give learners permission to be in all the ways that express who they are, I have given myself permission to speak freely from every place in me that I can access in the hope that I will speak to all those parts of you, the reader, that long to be noticed, reflected, spoken to, and joined with. I offer this as a potential way of healing and growing for human beings.