Learning to Center Relational Ontologies: Desettling Interaction Analysis Methods

Abstract

In this symposium we work toward our responsibility in learning how to be human through a deep reciprocal relationship to and with the more than human, by interrogating an influential method in the learning sciences, interaction analysis. As settler scholars learning to “set aside the ways of the colonist” (Kimmerer, 2013, p. 207) we aim to think with Indigenous Ways of Knowing (IWOK) to reinterpret the methodological commitments of interaction analysis. In acknowledgment of the continual learning required for this goal, we propose a symposium where authors and audience members learn together, engaging in two iterations of a video analysis session around the same piece of data: one using more traditional interaction analysis methods, and one engaging with our emerging understandings of a relational ontology. Our two discussants, leading scholars of both IWOK and interaction analysis in the learning sciences will support analysis sessions and subsequent discussion.