Foreword: Creating Openings to Ponder Interpretation, Inconclusivity, and the Geography of Narrative

Abstract

Geography has always drawn me like a magnet or an artist or a lover. In real or virtual life I can always see the textures and feel the metaphors. So when I saw the picture of the braided river, the image used by the editors as a way to enter into the text, Narrative Inquirers in the Midst of Meaning-making: Interpretive Acts of Teacher Educators, I sat quietly opening my mind to possibilities. Like a magnet my eyes held fast to the picture, like an artist I imagined colors, like a lover the image created desire to see more. Yet, the cranes called me as well with the huge wingspan, regal stance and red crowns. I could see the birds dancing through the braids, hovering upon the sands, sinking into the water.

Citation

Lynn Hamilton, M. (2012), "Foreword: Creating Openings to Ponder Interpretation, Inconclusivity, and the Geography of Narrative", Chan, E., Keyes, D. and Ross, V. (Ed.) Narrative Inquirers in the Midst of Meaning-making: Interpretive Acts of Teacher Educators (Advances in Research on Teaching, Vol. 16), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. xi-xv. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-3687(2012)0000016003