Spaces, Places & Lines Between Teacher Education and Community Garden

Abstract

This paper examines the diffractive connectedness of spaces and places among education, nature, academia, and community. In it, I follow a project in which trainee teachers and a community garden volunteer group engage photography and poetry to connect with each other in cross community-education spaces. As I think through the shared visual and material mementos, I document a discomfort that emerges as I remember these encounters and reflect on their entanglement with philosophical posthuman and feminist new materialist ideas. The paper will support other education researchers to traverse the use of these philosophical ideas in praxis.