Teaching-Researching-Desiring: Relational Ethics and Inquiries Inspired by Poststructural and Posthumanist Philosophies

Posthumanist inquiry reframes our understanding of education and social life. In decentering the human, posthumanist inquiry focuses on relation with/in humans and more-than-humans and involves thinking with and philosophizing what would not be seen as data in other forms of qualitative inquiry. What is ‘critical’ here is an imagining beyond that of critique. In this chapter, Candace Kuby thinks/writes into being a discussion of her long lasting work with an elementary teacher, Tara Gutshall Rucker, and her students. Literacy is rethought with posthuman theories as relational ethics. Literacy is a desiring, a creating with/in the relation thought around: (1) Becoming, Togetherness, (2) Unknown, Uncertainty, (3) Be(ing) Otherwise, and (4) Ethics and Justice.