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This chapter will describe how educators can use uncertainty field books to explore students’ experiences as they navigate in complex and uncertain knowledge and information spaces, to engage others, and to start, grow and sustain movements for change using the groaning in the groan zone. In describing the field book, method and practice, but foremost students’ narratives, the chapter sets it up as one example among many of how uncertainty and possibility might be conceptualized and put into practice for change-making. In doing so I situate the field book as an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses and blends perspectives and ways of knowing largely from ethnography and design.
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Houmann, A. (2022). Exploring Uncertainty by Groaning in the Groan Zone: A Pattern for Emergent Conversation and Learning. In: Beghetto, R.A., Jaeger, G.J. (eds) Uncertainty: A Catalyst for Creativity, Learning and Development . Creativity Theory and Action in Education, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98729-9_16
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