Reimagining Learning Research in “canada” as “road Making”: Opportunities to Move Toward Equity Through Walking Methodologies

Abstract

This symposium advances walking methodologies, and the kinds of learning and research relations that emerge through walking, as a significant process for “road making” toward more equitable futures in the Learning Sciences. The papers gathered here highlight diverse forms of walking together: from cultural anthropological research (Lee & Ingold, 2006) to walking with and alongside community activists (Curnow, Davis, & Asher, 2018; Takeuchi & Aquino Ishihara, 2021), to walking as learning and coming to know with and from the land (Marin & Bang, 2018), to reimagining place from transnational perspectives (Adams, 2013), and wayfaring as figuring both science and identities (Rahm, Gonsalves, & Lachaîne, 2022). Through dialogue within and across papers, we emphasize the ways in which walking methodologies make visible materiality and relations with the more-than-human world (Marin, 2020), as well as effects and experiences of inequity, with attention to co-constructing caring and equitable relations through shared walking.