![]() ![]() Further, I have been wondering about the relationship of wonder with what psychologist Daniel Stern ( 2004, 2010) has termed “vitality affects”-affects we feel and sense in others, that permeate our everyday lives, and “are felt experiences of force, in movement – that have a temporal contour, and a sense of aliveness, of going somewhere” (Stern, 2010, p. Through a slow and transdisciplinary study, I have come to think-feel wonder(ing) Footnote 1 as a dynamic, multidimensional, multimodal, and somewhat sensitive and slippery affect (Byers, 2021) a common, ubiquitous, and catalytic force that works to open up possibilities and make felt potential in and through everyday events and encounters. ![]() I will share here an overview of some of my theorizing about the concept thus far as a means of providing context for engaging with the meta-assemblage that follows. KeywordsĪs an emerging science education researcher and long-time elementary science teacher in the United States, I have been thinking about and dwelling with the phenomenon of wonder for many years. A more wonder-filled approach to science education may be necessary now more than ever. These co-movements suggest how “traditional” science and school science education are not only complicit with, but also may be directly implicated as primary protagonists in the violent anti-Black racism and planet-wide suffering happening today. The intention of this meta-assemblage research-creation is to explore the affective flows of the phenomenon of wonder, while also inviting consideration of how the multiple forces and co-components of the body(ies) assembled here move together in an uneasy and historically traceable tension. What might wonder have to do with critiquing science (as the hegemonic and “neutral” discipline it has become) and living out a more life-affirming and anti-racist vision of science education? In this chapter I share a meta-assemblage research-creation: a researcher-created experimental exhibit of found poetic data assemblages about wonder, joy, Black life, neurodiversity, love, science, and science education. Wonder is an elusive yet ever-present dynamic phenomenon that deserves more attention in (science) education. ![]()
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