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We meet regularly in this space to discuss Susan’s learning as she progresses through a Negotiated Study in a Master of Education program. I am her “supervisor”. Sometimes we speak in hushed whispers; sometimes our voices are loud and animated; sometimes we are cool and decisive. Our stories undermine the cold blue bureaucracy of the space and refuse to be constrained. We weave between personal memories; fragments taken from research papers; ideas and conceptual understandings; notes made in journals; metaphors and visual representations; reflective wonderings; and feelings about ourselves, other people and our work. We span out in our thinking, stretching threads as far as we can take them; we dig deep in our desire to understand; we abandon some threads and never return to them. We slip between conscious intention and something more intuitive, tentative, personal and hazy.
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McGraw, A. (2013). Layered Stories as Opportunities to Show and Engage in Learning. In: Pedagogies for the Future. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-278-5_8
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