Open AccessBecoming a (Re)Searcher: Negotiating Literacies and Uncertainty
Author(s) -
Darcy Courtland
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
language and literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1496-0974
DOI - 10.20360/langandlit29514
Subject(s) - scholarship , literacy , negotiation , narrative , sociology , pedagogy , indigenous , information literacy , mathematics education , psychology , social science , political science , literature , art , ecology , law , biology
In this paper I explore my evolving understandings of literacy and ways of knowing. Using autobiographical narrative inquiry (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000), the first section of my paper delves into the ways I have previously negotiated concepts of literacy as an educator and novice researcher. In the second section of my paper, I turn towards Indigenous scholarship (Antone, 2003; Cardinal, 2010; Young, 2005) as I embrace my conception of literacy as “life lived” in conjunction with Freire’s (1985) concept of dwelling in uncertainty. By engaging narratively with my own literacy and learning experiences during the first year of my doctoral program, I negotiate uncertainty through three threads of learning: slowing down, being open to vulnerability, and walking humbly in good