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Animating where the caterpillars go
The photos of the caterpillar from the initial encounter help us stage the question—Where is the caterpillar headed?We look, study, remember, retell the encounter with…
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What does a road sound like right before it stops being a city?
From the very beginning, before I even step foot into the school where the inquiry takes place, I am already listening. I get into my…
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Sitting with Teachers After Encountering a Caterpillar
After our initial encounter with the caterpillar, as the day began to loosen around us, I found myself back at the picnic bench with Kaitlyn…
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Looking Again
Through photographs we had taken. Through sketches from the day before. Through the fragments of noticing that stayed with us. Slowly, the fuzzy white body…
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Stories That Surface
Memories of moths gathering near lights. Recollections of them as fabric-eaters, closet-dwellers, creatures that appear quietly and become noticeable only when they disrupt something. The…
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Care and Its Assumptions
Lyndsay shared how children often respond to snails, which are common in the area because of the waterways running through the city. She described how…
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Tracing the Mill Pond
The Mill Pond in Dorchester, where this project took place, is embedded in a history that intertwines industrial ambition with the Thames Valley preservation efforts.…
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Encountering a caterpillar
“Miya!!!”“What?”“Miya, I think I can see a caterpillar!”“Caterpillar? Where? Where—where? Wait, where?”“Ohhhh…” “It’s a poisonous one!”One of them notices, pointing to the white,fuzzy body tucked…
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Inaugurating Questions of Children’s Participation
In 2023, we inaugurated a set of research questions concerning children’s participation, following the data collected through Playing for Keeps a TGAL pilot project that…
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Refusing the God-Trick
Donna Haraway (1988), in Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective, critiques what she calls the “God-Trick.” This is…
