Presentation/Workshop - EECOM Conference 2018 Classrooms to Communities, Cranbrook, BC + Literature Review

Dr. Leighton was awarded a Research and Professional Development grant to present at the Classrooms to Communities conference on the use of métissage as a form of inquiry.

A Wild Braid of Words and Worlds: A Re(story)ative Inquiry through Métissage:

Intended to blur, merge and often disrupt habitual story lines, métissage (a generative form of life-writing) invites a counter-narrative for difficult times, coaxes a collective praxis by way of an organic, hermeneutic inquiry. First, we write our individual stories and then together, weaving line by line, we braid a re(story)ative, polyphonic mix of perspectives that begins to shape a story far greater than any one story ever could be with implications to shift and entwine understanding and move us to act more wisely.