Storying practices of witnessing Fikile Nxumalo [citation] : refiguring quality in everyday pedagogical encounters /

This article seeks to contribute towards an unsettling of dominant framings of quality pedagogical practices. The author puts to work the figure of the modest witness as a way of storying everyday pedagogical encounters in childhood settings that might refigure quality in practice as materialized more-than-human becomings. Working within the particular context of British Columbia, Canada, the author’s particular orientation is towards emergent interferences to child-centred orientations in everyday practices of art-making and multispecies encounters in relation with a local mountain forest. Through descriptive visual and textual accounts of small stories, the author experiments with foregrounding implicated, responsive and messy practices-in-question that bring hopeful possibilities for reimagining quality in practice without the enclosures of fixed and final resolutions.