Ma

Pauline Sameshima, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Arts Integrated Studies at Lakehead University, utilizes multi-modal methodologies to catalyze thinking, dialogues, and social innovation. Boyd White is Associate Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, Faculty of Education, McGill University. Anita Sinner is Associate Professor of Art Education at Concordia University, Montreal.

Figures – Pauline Sameshima: Ma, I’m Thinking About Nothing – Heesoon Bai/Avraham Cohen: Ma (間) of Education – Jun Hu: Ma as a Machinic Component – Summer Dickinson: Ma-ga-warui: Disruptive Sensations in Somaesthetic-Minded Teaching and Learning – Dustin Garnet/Anita Sinner: The Story-Object: Embodying (New) Materiality in Teaching and Learning – Erika Hasebe-Ludt: Of Lanterns and Liminal Moments: Living Curriculum in the Key of Ted Tetsuo Aoki – Sean Wiebe: Breathe with the Magnificent Materiality of Being: Haiku, Ma, and Kokoro – Boyd White: Aesthetic Encounters and Ethics: The Space Between – Nathalie Duponsel/Sandra Chang-Kredl: Mind with Matter: A Conversation About Math Education and New Materialism – Aaron Senitt: Inside Outside Upside Down – Holly Tsun Haggarty: In Between the Markers: Ma and the Art of Evaluation – Christina Hanawalt: Disrupting the Spectacle of School Art through Collage: New Art Teachers and In Between Spaces of Possibility – Joana Hyatt: Drawing New Images of Thought: Mapping Relations and Negotiating Meanings through the Material – Lisa Hochtritt: Pulp Fiction: Creating a Visual Leadership Philosophy – Briana Bower: "These Are My Objects": Exploring Materiality with Students – Yoriko Gillard: Living Practice of 間 – Siobhan-Louise O’Keefe: Materiality: MA Provoked/MA Discovered/MA Embraced – Sheila O’Brien: What Matters: A Tale of "Ma" – Carl Leggo: Ma: Lingering in the Alphabet – Kedrick James: Spring – Tone Pernille Østern: Teacher-Thinking as Embodied Matter Producing and Produced by Pedagogical Spaces: A Research Journey with Two Contemporary Dance Artist-Teachers – Barbara Bickel/Nané Jordan/Medwyn McConachy/Ingrid Rose/Cindy Lou Griffith: MA Poses: A New Material Feminist Art Practice – Wanda Hurren: Ma: Spaces for Thinking in 13 Haibuns – Contributors – Index.

“In a time when binaries abound, and big data is used to label and commodify so many aspects of our lives, this stunning and diverse collection of chapters powerfully draws us to the ‘light in the cracks’ as Leonard Cohen sang. This book stirs and inspires—there are no limits as to what could be imagined and positively transformed through an awareness of ma. This book should be required reading in every teacher education program.”
Robert Lake, Professor of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading, Georgia Southern University

“Schools and schooling seem so inevitable, so normal, that even so-called ‘reforms’ are mere window dressing. For true change, we need books like this to surprise us into re-thinking educa-tion. With poetry, art, theory, and narrative, it evokes the material and magical possibilities of teaching and learning, and reminds us that education could and should be a radical process of becoming, of changing, of being between what is and what will be.”
Anthony Paré, Professor and Department Head, Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia

“Sameshima, White, and Sinner have assembled an eclectic thought-provoking collection of au-thors that calls upon us to (re)think, (re)theorize, and (re)write our work between the spaces of post-qualitative research, new materiality, teacher education, curriculum, currere, and Japanese philosophy. Readers are introduced to the Japanese concept of ‘ma,’ which in turn promises to make significant contributions to the emerging educational research on materiality and material culture within and beyond curriculum studies, teaching, and learning. Serious educational schol-ars will want to have a copy of this innovative collection on their bookshelf.”
Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, Professor, Director of Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, Universi-ty of Ottawa

“I hope you slowly weave through these essays; feel and linger the breadth of their ideas. From artists, fiction writers, poets, and pedagogues, Sameshima, White, and Sinner have assembled a fine collection of scholars whose essays capture the possibilities of ma. They, I, we encourage you to stop, slow down, and explore the space that cannot be filled but shapes our experiences. Performatively edited and written in three sections, these essays cover the practice of theory, the materiality of practice, and the theory of new materialism in its many forms.”
John Weaver, Professor of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading, Georgia Southern University

“In the material turn stories stare back, a post-qualitative even political sensation, testifying in/through haiku, haibun, kokoro, bauspiel, lingering in liminality, illumining an architecture of attunement, accompaniment, presence: MAteriality. This is a vocabulary for entering the space between two markers, separation after symbiosis, individuation perhaps. Enter here.”
William F. Pinar, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Curriculum Studies, University of British Columbia