Rubbing the room

Tactile epistemologies of teacher work

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  • Victoria Restler

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https://doi.org/10.7577/rerm.4113

Abstract

This article describes a visual ethnographic intervention at a New York City public school. The intervention and the images that resulted—a series of life-size red wax rubbings on paper—work in relation to visual discourses and dynamics of contemporary school accountability. In the article, the author situates the images and image-making in the context of her broader multimodal qualitative study on teachers’ invisible labor in urban schools. The author makes sense of this visual ethnographic intervention through a series of three conceptual dyads: witnessing/ evidence; positionality/ art; and intimacy/ “tactile epistemology,” (Marks 2000).  

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2020-12-21

How to Cite

Restler, V. (2020). Rubbing the room: Tactile epistemologies of teacher work. Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.7577/rerm.4113

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