Seeing Red––A Pedagogy of Parallax: An Epistolary Bildungsroman on Artful Scholarly Inquiry
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conversations with myself and with memories from my past. These memories were reconstructed through an interior dialogue [and] a meaningful reality was created out of this interpretive process.

Carl Leggo (2002, p. 2) describes his living as:

desire, insatiable desire
to know, to quest/ion, to seek.
So, I explore ways of writing
that expose lies like vermilion threads
tangled in the illusion of a linear composition

To introduce the work I share a few of the questions which guided its development:

How does personal identity influence pedagogy?

  • How do misconceptions of rootedness, sense-of-place, and constructs of belonging frame teacher identity in unhealthy ascetic motivations which promote precarious pedagogical perspectives and punitive standardization?
  • How are body, love, and desire connected to public conceptions of learning and teaching?

  • How can a new embodied aesthetic of personal and plural “wholeness” merge culturally constructed unconscious and dichotomous ways of thinking about pedagogy which inherently separate, define, and prevent holistic learning and teaching?
  • What influence does the student/teacher relationship have on student learning? What is the edge of love? Where is the limen of learning?
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