The Metaphor/m Project: exploring ways of metaph/irming and metaph/ecting thinking about identity.

Metaphors help us to think about, and represent to ourselves and others, ideas that are complex. Thus they are ideal to help navigate questions of wayward, slippery identity, practice and pedagogy.

Through metaphor/ms - objects created with and through a playful exploration of a metaphor - I am engaging practically and artistically with issues of my own liminal space as artist-researcher-teacher+. How can metaphor/ms generate and/or convey understanding of my own identity, practice and pedagogy?

Drawing on academic and professional literature, as well as my own experiences as a Primary PGCE tutor, my aim is to produce a body of artistic work and/or writings that explore themes relating to teacher-educator identity, belonging, liminality, and the challenges of being positioned at the intersection of several interconnecting fields at the same time (including but not limited to art, writing, teaching, research, ITT, motherhood).