Marina Basu is a doctoral student in Learning, Literacies, and Technologies program at Arizona State University. With a background in teaching and teacher education in non-traditional settings, including a Krishnamurti Foundation India (KFI) school, Marina has rich experiences in creative and integrated curriculum and pedagogy. Her research interests span mathematics pedagogy, teacher education, feminist philosophy and critical qualitative research, including art-based research practices.
Building on the scientific evidence and keeping in focus policy promises made over the decades, t... more Building on the scientific evidence and keeping in focus policy promises made over the decades, this report mobilizes the power of socially engaged art to bring together visions and voices of youth from across the globe in a collective effort to address the root causes of the climate crisis. It starts with the premise that education is directly implicated in the climate crisis and our failure to imagine alternatives. But it can also be the catalyst for radical change. Aiming to shift and shuffle the dominant knowledge systems and categories with the cards from the Turn It Around! deck, this report urges you to turn toward the reality of the climate crisis by capturing its devastating impacts from youth perspective in a way statistical data might not. It challenges existing education policies, practices, and patterns as no longer possible, tolerable, or even thinkable. With the powerful imagination and creativity of youth, the report activates a series of turning points — intergenera...
How might one situate oneself in and respond to research literature in a way that does not assume... more How might one situate oneself in and respond to research literature in a way that does not assume traditional humanist research paradigms? In response, I engage in poetic inquiry through my readings of certain scholarly articles published in the field of postqualitative inquiry. I present two of them here, based on two articles that strike a rhythm in me; evocations are created and my voice merges with the existing voices in creating further lines of flight. The poetry helps me attune to inquiry and in turn inquiry is revealed as a sensitive attunement to the rhythms of life.
Creativity. Theories – Research - Applications, 2021
How might technology mediate the transition from primary creative expression to secondary creativ... more How might technology mediate the transition from primary creative expression to secondary creative contributions? In this paper, we address this question by expanding upon recent conceptualizations of primary and secondary creativity (Runco & Beghetto, 2019) and offer a new way to understand how technology can support creative learning and creative expression. We open by providing a conceptual overview of how technology can serve as a mediator between primary and secondary creativity. We then provide a concrete example of how material artifacts of students’ creative expression (primary creativity) were digitized into artifacts, and in turn, transformed again into material creative contributions in the form of narrative volumes (secondary creativity). We also discuss how technology can be used to mediate continuous creative contributions beyond primary and secondary creativity and how creativity researchers can (re)conceptualize the role technology can play in supporting indefinite c...
Creativity. Theories – Research - Applications, 2021
How might technology mediate the transition from primary creative expression to secondary creativ... more How might technology mediate the transition from primary creative expression to secondary creative contributions? In this paper, we address this question by expanding upon recent conceptualizations of primary and secondary creativity (Runco & Beghetto, 2019) and offer a new way to understand how technology can sup- port creative learning and creative expression. We open by providing a conceptual overview of how technology can serve as a mediator between primary and secondary creativity. We then provide a concrete example of how material artifacts of students’ creative expression (primary creativity) were digitized into artifacts, and in turn, transformed again into material creative contributions in the form of illustrated books (secondary creativity). We also discuss how technology can be used to mediate continuous creative contributions beyond primary and secondary creativity and how creativity researchers can (re)conceptualize the role technology can play in supporting indefinite...
Michel Foucault uses the term biopolitics to highlight the focus on life that is at the center of... more Michel Foucault uses the term biopolitics to highlight the focus on life that is at the center of contemporary politics. Biopower or biopolitics is the maximization of life through various regulatory apparatuses that monitor, modify, and control life processes. I elucidate and exemplify Foucault’s framework in order to show how the medical discourse exercises a certain kind of power over bodies in the name of health. My argument is that through the mechanisms of biopower, the juridico-medical discourse simultaneously makes pregnancy into an object of study and the pregnant woman into a subject of power. With the help of a Foucauldian interpretation, I attempt to unmask the not-so-visible techniques of biopolitics that surround the pregnant woman. The unmasking makes it possible to think differently which is the primary task of philosophy. Specifically, such a critique helps in reformulating the problem as one of subjectivation.
How might one situate oneself in and respond to research literature in a way that does not assume... more How might one situate oneself in and respond to research literature in a way that does not assume traditional humanist research paradigms? In response, I engage in poetic inquiry through my readings of certain scholarly articles published in the field of postqualitative inquiry. I present two of them here, based on two articles that strike a rhythm in me; evocations are created and my voice merges with the existing voices in creating further lines of flight. The poetry helps me attune to inquiry and in turn inquiry is revealed as a sensitive attunement to the rhythms of life.
Arizona State University and Artists’ Literacies Institute, 2022
For more than six decades, scientists have warned us of the catastrophic effects of the escalatin... more For more than six decades, scientists have warned us of the catastrophic effects of the escalating climate crisis on the planet and people. The United Nations (UN) member states have met annually since the mid-1990s at the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings, setting goals and delivering metrics, making promises and offering hope, but failing to enforce policy action. The recent UN COP 26 in Glasgow fell short of keeping the goal of 1.5°C global heating alive as measured against its own objectives. Despite booming policy declarations and deafening science alarms, we have yet to see the radical change in the existing systems and institutions, lifestyles and behaviors, and mindsets and hearts. Perhaps by their very objectivity, the words and numbers distance us from the searing heat of a wildfire or the smell of fear and despair as animals and humans watch the floods wash away their homes and witness the fires burn their habitats. They also reduce the complexity of intertwined webs of life by fragmenting our common planetary home into isolated ‘problems’ to be managed and fixed without addressing a much larger challenge of dismantling unjust systems and reconfiguring our relationships with each other and the planet.
Building on the scientific evidence and keeping in focus policy promises made over the decades, this report mobilizes the power of socially engaged art to bring together visions and voices of youth from across the globe in a collective effort to address the root causes of the climate crisis. It starts with the premise that education is directly implicated in the climate crisis and our failure to imagine alternatives. But it can also be the catalyst for radical change.
Aiming to shift and shuffle the dominant knowledge systems and categories with the cards from the Turn It Around! deck, this report urges you to turn toward the reality of the climate crisis by capturing its devastating impacts from youth perspectives in a way statistical data might not. It challenges existing education policies, practices, and patterns as no longer possible, tolerable, or even thinkable. With the powerful imagination and creativity of youth, the report activates a series of turning points — intergenerational, decolonial, methodological, and pedagogical — in order to turn around the environmental catastrophe, while reconfiguring the role of education toward ecologically just and sustainable futures. Recognizing that most of the human-induced damages on earth are irreversible, we invite you to follow these turns in order to unlearn harmful patterns and begin relearning how to be a part of the Earth’s ecological community. The invitation to Turn it Around! is more than an urgent call to action — it is now the responsibility of every reader to re-imagine education and work out new ways of living with the Earth.
Building on the scientific evidence and keeping in focus policy promises made over the decades, t... more Building on the scientific evidence and keeping in focus policy promises made over the decades, this report mobilizes the power of socially engaged art to bring together visions and voices of youth from across the globe in a collective effort to address the root causes of the climate crisis. It starts with the premise that education is directly implicated in the climate crisis and our failure to imagine alternatives. But it can also be the catalyst for radical change. Aiming to shift and shuffle the dominant knowledge systems and categories with the cards from the Turn It Around! deck, this report urges you to turn toward the reality of the climate crisis by capturing its devastating impacts from youth perspective in a way statistical data might not. It challenges existing education policies, practices, and patterns as no longer possible, tolerable, or even thinkable. With the powerful imagination and creativity of youth, the report activates a series of turning points — intergenera...
How might one situate oneself in and respond to research literature in a way that does not assume... more How might one situate oneself in and respond to research literature in a way that does not assume traditional humanist research paradigms? In response, I engage in poetic inquiry through my readings of certain scholarly articles published in the field of postqualitative inquiry. I present two of them here, based on two articles that strike a rhythm in me; evocations are created and my voice merges with the existing voices in creating further lines of flight. The poetry helps me attune to inquiry and in turn inquiry is revealed as a sensitive attunement to the rhythms of life.
Creativity. Theories – Research - Applications, 2021
How might technology mediate the transition from primary creative expression to secondary creativ... more How might technology mediate the transition from primary creative expression to secondary creative contributions? In this paper, we address this question by expanding upon recent conceptualizations of primary and secondary creativity (Runco & Beghetto, 2019) and offer a new way to understand how technology can support creative learning and creative expression. We open by providing a conceptual overview of how technology can serve as a mediator between primary and secondary creativity. We then provide a concrete example of how material artifacts of students’ creative expression (primary creativity) were digitized into artifacts, and in turn, transformed again into material creative contributions in the form of narrative volumes (secondary creativity). We also discuss how technology can be used to mediate continuous creative contributions beyond primary and secondary creativity and how creativity researchers can (re)conceptualize the role technology can play in supporting indefinite c...
Creativity. Theories – Research - Applications, 2021
How might technology mediate the transition from primary creative expression to secondary creativ... more How might technology mediate the transition from primary creative expression to secondary creative contributions? In this paper, we address this question by expanding upon recent conceptualizations of primary and secondary creativity (Runco & Beghetto, 2019) and offer a new way to understand how technology can sup- port creative learning and creative expression. We open by providing a conceptual overview of how technology can serve as a mediator between primary and secondary creativity. We then provide a concrete example of how material artifacts of students’ creative expression (primary creativity) were digitized into artifacts, and in turn, transformed again into material creative contributions in the form of illustrated books (secondary creativity). We also discuss how technology can be used to mediate continuous creative contributions beyond primary and secondary creativity and how creativity researchers can (re)conceptualize the role technology can play in supporting indefinite...
Michel Foucault uses the term biopolitics to highlight the focus on life that is at the center of... more Michel Foucault uses the term biopolitics to highlight the focus on life that is at the center of contemporary politics. Biopower or biopolitics is the maximization of life through various regulatory apparatuses that monitor, modify, and control life processes. I elucidate and exemplify Foucault’s framework in order to show how the medical discourse exercises a certain kind of power over bodies in the name of health. My argument is that through the mechanisms of biopower, the juridico-medical discourse simultaneously makes pregnancy into an object of study and the pregnant woman into a subject of power. With the help of a Foucauldian interpretation, I attempt to unmask the not-so-visible techniques of biopolitics that surround the pregnant woman. The unmasking makes it possible to think differently which is the primary task of philosophy. Specifically, such a critique helps in reformulating the problem as one of subjectivation.
How might one situate oneself in and respond to research literature in a way that does not assume... more How might one situate oneself in and respond to research literature in a way that does not assume traditional humanist research paradigms? In response, I engage in poetic inquiry through my readings of certain scholarly articles published in the field of postqualitative inquiry. I present two of them here, based on two articles that strike a rhythm in me; evocations are created and my voice merges with the existing voices in creating further lines of flight. The poetry helps me attune to inquiry and in turn inquiry is revealed as a sensitive attunement to the rhythms of life.
Arizona State University and Artists’ Literacies Institute, 2022
For more than six decades, scientists have warned us of the catastrophic effects of the escalatin... more For more than six decades, scientists have warned us of the catastrophic effects of the escalating climate crisis on the planet and people. The United Nations (UN) member states have met annually since the mid-1990s at the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings, setting goals and delivering metrics, making promises and offering hope, but failing to enforce policy action. The recent UN COP 26 in Glasgow fell short of keeping the goal of 1.5°C global heating alive as measured against its own objectives. Despite booming policy declarations and deafening science alarms, we have yet to see the radical change in the existing systems and institutions, lifestyles and behaviors, and mindsets and hearts. Perhaps by their very objectivity, the words and numbers distance us from the searing heat of a wildfire or the smell of fear and despair as animals and humans watch the floods wash away their homes and witness the fires burn their habitats. They also reduce the complexity of intertwined webs of life by fragmenting our common planetary home into isolated ‘problems’ to be managed and fixed without addressing a much larger challenge of dismantling unjust systems and reconfiguring our relationships with each other and the planet.
Building on the scientific evidence and keeping in focus policy promises made over the decades, this report mobilizes the power of socially engaged art to bring together visions and voices of youth from across the globe in a collective effort to address the root causes of the climate crisis. It starts with the premise that education is directly implicated in the climate crisis and our failure to imagine alternatives. But it can also be the catalyst for radical change.
Aiming to shift and shuffle the dominant knowledge systems and categories with the cards from the Turn It Around! deck, this report urges you to turn toward the reality of the climate crisis by capturing its devastating impacts from youth perspectives in a way statistical data might not. It challenges existing education policies, practices, and patterns as no longer possible, tolerable, or even thinkable. With the powerful imagination and creativity of youth, the report activates a series of turning points — intergenerational, decolonial, methodological, and pedagogical — in order to turn around the environmental catastrophe, while reconfiguring the role of education toward ecologically just and sustainable futures. Recognizing that most of the human-induced damages on earth are irreversible, we invite you to follow these turns in order to unlearn harmful patterns and begin relearning how to be a part of the Earth’s ecological community. The invitation to Turn it Around! is more than an urgent call to action — it is now the responsibility of every reader to re-imagine education and work out new ways of living with the Earth.
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Building on the scientific evidence and keeping in focus policy promises made over the decades, this report mobilizes the power of socially engaged art to bring together visions and voices of youth from across the globe in a collective effort to address the root causes of the climate crisis. It starts with the premise that education is directly implicated in the climate crisis and our failure to imagine alternatives. But it can also be the catalyst for radical change.
Aiming to shift and shuffle the dominant knowledge systems and categories with the cards from the Turn It Around! deck, this report urges you to turn toward the reality of the climate crisis by capturing its devastating impacts from youth perspectives in a way statistical data might not. It challenges existing education policies, practices, and patterns as no longer possible, tolerable, or even thinkable. With the powerful imagination and creativity of youth, the report activates a series of turning points — intergenerational, decolonial, methodological, and pedagogical — in order to turn around the environmental catastrophe, while reconfiguring the role of education toward ecologically just and sustainable futures. Recognizing that most of the human-induced damages on earth are irreversible, we invite you to follow these turns in order to unlearn harmful patterns and begin relearning how to be a part of the Earth’s ecological community. The invitation to Turn it Around! is more than an urgent call to action — it is now the responsibility of every reader to re-imagine education and work out new ways of living with the Earth.
Building on the scientific evidence and keeping in focus policy promises made over the decades, this report mobilizes the power of socially engaged art to bring together visions and voices of youth from across the globe in a collective effort to address the root causes of the climate crisis. It starts with the premise that education is directly implicated in the climate crisis and our failure to imagine alternatives. But it can also be the catalyst for radical change.
Aiming to shift and shuffle the dominant knowledge systems and categories with the cards from the Turn It Around! deck, this report urges you to turn toward the reality of the climate crisis by capturing its devastating impacts from youth perspectives in a way statistical data might not. It challenges existing education policies, practices, and patterns as no longer possible, tolerable, or even thinkable. With the powerful imagination and creativity of youth, the report activates a series of turning points — intergenerational, decolonial, methodological, and pedagogical — in order to turn around the environmental catastrophe, while reconfiguring the role of education toward ecologically just and sustainable futures. Recognizing that most of the human-induced damages on earth are irreversible, we invite you to follow these turns in order to unlearn harmful patterns and begin relearning how to be a part of the Earth’s ecological community. The invitation to Turn it Around! is more than an urgent call to action — it is now the responsibility of every reader to re-imagine education and work out new ways of living with the Earth.