Space, bodies, and stuff aspartners in thinking and writing

Description

This presentation illuminates approaches to research that aim at decentering verballanguage, developed by a multidisciplinary research team within the ELLA researchproject. ELLA stands for Embodied Language Learning through the Arts and is fundedby the Kone foundation (see https://sites.uniarts.fi/web/ellaresearchproject
). Theproject focuses on broadening the conceptions of language and learning, and in sodoing, renewing pedagogical practices related to language learning in variouseducational settings. Simultaneously, the conception of language in doing researchis being critically investigated. In this, the project traverses methodologicallybetween qualitative and post-qualitative orientations, also in combination with arts-based and artistic research. As the project will embark on its fourth and final year inJanuary 2024 the team is anxious to share some research practices that demonstratehow they have approached the challenge of decentering verbal language throughembodied practices that involve attending to the materiality of space and objects, or‘stuff’ within it.

The presentation will be largely based on images, narration, poetic, andperformative utterances. It will also outline some theoretical sources for this work(e.g., Pennycook, 2016; Toohey, 2019), and credit previous work by scholars that hasbeen influential for the ELLA team (Guttorm, Löytönen, Anttila & Valkeemäki 2016;Hohti, 2016; Pelias 2019).

Period	12 Jan 2024
Event title	European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry: Participation, collaboration and co-creation: Qualitative inquiry across and beyond divides
Event type	Conference
Conference number	7
Location	Helsinki, FinlandShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International