{"id":62,"date":"2026-06-04T20:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/reimagining-education-for-better-futures-research-group\/?p=62"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:35:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:35:41","slug":"meandering-with-water-reading-writing-thinking-and-learning-through-collective-poetic-methodology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/reimagining-education-for-better-futures-research-group\/2026\/06\/04\/meandering-with-water-reading-writing-thinking-and-learning-through-collective-poetic-methodology\/","title":{"rendered":"Meandering with Water: Reading, Writing, Thinking and Learning Through Collective Poetic Methodology"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: Qi Ye, Kristine Bagge Kousholt, Rachel Wilder and Kate Matzopoulos<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Media Credit: Qi Ye<\/p>\n

We gathered as a reading group to engage with <\/span>Meandering as learning: Co-creating care with Camissa Oceans in higher education<\/span><\/i> by Aaniyah Martin, Joanne Peers, and Theresa Giorza. In our research group, we come from different research interests in education, and we currently use water to think together, allowing it to hold, stretch, and connect our ideas. The paper we discussed this week invited us into a relational, processual way of engaging, and we took this as our frame: to explore what might emerge when we attend to our thinking not as fixed positions, but as something moving, shifting, and in relation.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As we spoke with one another about the paper, whenever a thought or feeling surfaced about our research, about the paper, about water and what water would say to us about our research, we wrote a line into the chat function on Teams. As in the paper, meaning emerged collectively\u2014through fragments, relation, and flow.<\/span><\/p>\n

These lines were not discussed, edited, or refined in the moment\u2014they were simply offered as they came. In this way, we immersed ourselves in the methodology of the work we were engaging with, doing as others shared how they explored. Rather than only discussing the theory used in the paper, we sought to bring together theory and practice in a non-hierarchical way\u2014and flowed through moments of resonance and tension, and through this meandering the lines used to create the poem came into being. The lines were later gathered and are presented here as a collective meandering\u2014a response to the reading.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This was an experiment\u2014one small way of re-imagining and putting in practice what education might be when meaning is formed using a process different from what we might normally do. We are grateful to the authors for the invitation to explore differently, to Shona for bringing our awareness to this paper and to all who were present\u2014Qi, Kristine, Rachel and Kate\u2014who all shared in the creation of the poem. A poem gathered in response to water and to a shared reading.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Poem<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

water says<\/span>
\nbe patient<\/span>
\nthe answers will come<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

knowledge should not be delivered<\/span>
\nopen ended<\/span>
\nprocess based<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

what language does the water speak?<\/span>
\nI don't know.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Is it Cambodian?<\/span>
\nVietnamese?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Is the water<\/span>
\na source of peace<\/span>
\nor fear<\/span>
\nor tension....<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

is language reworked<\/span>
\nor reinvented<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ursula Le Guin: <\/span>
\nThe carrier bag of fiction<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

where does language create difference<\/span>
\nand where does it bring us together<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

how does water divide<\/span>
\nand where does it create flow<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

water in our bodies - ever shifting<\/span>
\nreimagining<\/span>
\nhaunting<\/span>
\ntransforming<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

writing<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

killing<\/span>
\nre-remembering;<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

the same water<\/span>
\nand always changing<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

References<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Martin, A., Peers, J. and Giorza, T., 2023. <\/span>Meandering as learning: Co-creating care with Camissa Oceans in higher education<\/span><\/i>. <\/span>CRIStAL: Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning<\/span><\/b>, 11(Special Issue 2). DOI: 10.14426\/cristal.v11iSI 2.667<\/span><\/p>\n

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