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On Mutant Pedagogies: Seeking Justice and Drawing Change in Teacher Education
Author: Stephanie Jones
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This ground-breaking book on pedagogy, research, and philosophy in teacher education expands the imagination of justice-oriented education and arts-based scholarship. Based on a multi-year study of Jones use of feminist pedagogies, the book seamlessly moves between classroom practice, theory, and philosophy in a way that will offer something for everyone those who are looking for new ways of doing teacher education, those who hope to better understand philosophy, and those who seek new ways of doing inquiry and scholarship. Demonstrating through pedagogy, method, and form that we have more power than we think and dont have to repeat what has been handed down to us, the creators critique the restrictions of traditional teacher education and academic discourse. This critique prompts a move outward into unpredictable spaces of encounter where a maybe world might be lived in education. In this way, Jones and Woglom dont make the case for a certain kind of pedagogy or scholarly inquiry that might be *repeated*, but rather they invite educators and researchers to take seriously the philosophical ideas of Deleuze, Guattari, Barad, and others who argue that humans are in a constant aesthetic process of *becoming* with other humans, non-human life, and the material world around them. Thus, education *even teacher education* is not about reaching an already known end goal, but growing and changing through multiple ways of being and perceiving in the world. The authors call this **mutant pedagogies** and show one ethical path of mutating. **
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This ground-breaking book on pedagogy, research, and philosophy in teacher education expands the imagination of justice-oriented education and arts-based scholarship. Based on a multi-year study of Jones use of feminist pedagogies, the book seamlessly moves between classroom practice, theory, and philosophy in a way that will offer something for everyone those who are looking for new ways of doing teacher education, those who hope to better understand philosophy, and those who seek new ways of doing inquiry and scholarship. Demonstrating through pedagogy, method, and form that we have more power than we think and dont have to repeat what has been handed down to us, the creators critique the restrictions of traditional teacher education and academic discourse. This critique prompts a move outward into unpredictable spaces of encounter where a maybe world might be lived in education. In this way, Jones and Woglom dont make the case for a certain kind of pedagogy or scholarly inquiry that might be *repeated*, but rather they invite educators and researchers to take seriously the philosophical ideas of Deleuze, Guattari, Barad, and others who argue that humans are in a constant aesthetic process of *becoming* with other humans, non-human life, and the material world around them. Thus, education *even teacher education* is not about reaching an already known end goal, but growing and changing through multiple ways of being and perceiving in the world. The authors call this **mutant pedagogies** and show one ethical path of mutating. **
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