Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Continuing to Make Sense of A Deweyan-inspired Narrative Conception of Hope

Just last week I talked with a group of educators about hope and courage as we made sense of the hope suckers that come into the lives of those with whom we interact and as a result seep into our stories.

Hearing about the words of grade five students who said, "You can't have courage if you don't have hope and you can't be hopeful if you aren't courageous," inspired me to leave the classroom to pursue another way of being with hope and hoping.

12 years later, I learned that attending to hope and hoping in our stories enables the "courage to be" as I worked alongside and with two teachers who co-composed narrative accounts about their experiences of making hope visible and accessible in their personal and socially constructed stories in different places/spaces, over time.

I learned that, for these two teachers, 'the courage to be' unfolded in the two narrative accounts.