Being Data and Datadream/ing Pedagogies With Pinter

Abstract

This is about data dreaming the promise of dialogue in education with Pinter: The dreams and aspirations of the absent. It is a reality check and wishful thinking and about living in the world as if it was a better place. Ruin is a blessing. It always finds ways to rebuild itself. This is a move toward data driven pedagogies and research and away from traditional hypothesis driven activities and ideals. Dreaming with Pinter opens up Deleuzian “aionic” productive intensities/spaces/sensations, possibilizing and/or evoking teachers’ and children’s becomings alike; uncontrollable, indefinable endless. My Ego and My Own . . . counting as data setting things in motion: Data what you make of it (not) ultimately valuation of knowledges processes. My will. Anne and Ann Merete’s becomings with data from own “theorypraxises”: Anne’s research project with High School teachers and Ann Merete’s project in this huge kindergarten; both projects in Norway and about inclusive pedagogies and reform. The text is crafted as a play to honor—as in mourning, come Derrida, Pinter.