Welcoming Narratives in Education: A Tribute to the Life Work of Jonathan Silin - Issue 45 - Full Issue

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Issue 45 of the Bank Street Occasional Paper Series presents a tribute to Jonathan Silin, reflecting his 17-year service as Editor-in-Chief. The collection foregrounds narrative as a dialogic and transformative way of writing that shapes how knowledge and the social world are imagined. It emphasizes commitments to storytelling that challenges dominant accounts of childhood, development, and belonging, and to nurturing intergenerational relationships that welcome newcomers through educators’ and scholars’ work.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

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Pages122

Reading Time3 h 8 min

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Introduction

Relationships at the Core: A Story of Jonathan Silin

Essays

Ontologies of Welcoming

Witnessing Encounters

Decolonial Water Pedagogies

What Stories, Like Water, Hold

Whose Story Is It?

What Grown-Ups Aren’t Thinking About

What Can We Not Leave Behind?

Ungrasping the Other

Keep Yourself Alive

Ambivalent Legacies

Vulnerable Literacies

Occasional Paper Series Volume 2021 Number 45 Welcoming Narratives in Education: Article 1 A Tribute to the Life Work of Jonathan Silin April 2021 Welcoming Narratives in Education: A Tribute to the Life Work of Jonathan Silin Follow this and additional works at: [https://educate.bankstreet.edu/occasional-paper-series](https://educate.bankstreet.edu/occasional-paper-series) Part of the Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Curriculum and Social Inquiry Commons, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, and the Educational Methods Commons Recommended Citation (2021) . Welcoming Narratives in Education: A Tribute to the Life Work of Jonathan Silin. Occasional Paper Series, 2021 (45) . Retrieved from [https://educate.bankstreet.edu/occasional-paper-series/vol2021/iss45/](https://educate.bankstreet.edu/occasional-paper-series/vol2021/iss45/)[ ](https://educate.bankstreet.edu/occasional-paper-series/vol2021/iss45/)1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by Educate. It has been accepted for inclusion in Occasional Paper Series by an authorized editor of Educate. For more information, please contact [kfreda@bankstreet.edu](kfreda@bankstreet.edu). | Occasional Paper Series | 4. 2021 | | --- | --- | | | 45 | Welcoming Narratives in Education: A Tribute to the Life Work of Jonathan Silin Introduction Lisa Farley Gail Boldt Essays by Nicole Ineese-Nash Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw Fikile Nxumalo Debbie Sonu Tran Nguyen Templeton Wendy Luttrell Esther Ohito Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández Harper Keenan Jen Gilbert Alyssa Niccolini Jennifer Rowsell Cassie Brownell Karen Wohlwend Ana Carolina Díaz Beltrán Paty Abril-Gonzalez Cinthya Saavedra Michelle Salazar Pérez Virginia Casper Deborah Britzman Jonathan Silin Table of Contents INTRODUCTION Welcoming Narratives in Education: A Tribute to the Life Work of Jonathan Silin Lisa Farley and Gail Boldt Relationships at the Core: A Story of Jonathan Silin Gail Boldt and Lisa Farley ESSAYS Ontologies of Welcoming: Anishinaabe Narratives of Relationality and Practices for Educators Nicole Ineese-Nash Witnessing Encounters: A Response to Nicole Ineese-Nash’s “Ontologies of Welcoming”Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw Decolonial Water Pedagogies: Invitations to Black, Indigenous, and Black-Indigenous World-Making Fikile Nxumalo What Stories, Like Water, Hold: A Response to Fikile Nxumalo Debbie Sonu Whose Story Is It? Thinking Through Early Childhood with Young Children’s Photographs Tran Nguyen Templeton What Grown-Ups Aren’t Thinking About: A Response to Tran Nguyen Templeton Wendy Luttrell What Can We Not Leave Behind? Storying Family Photographs, Unlocking Emotional Memories, and Welcoming Complex Conversations on Being Human Esther Ohito Ungrasping the Other: The Parent, the Child, and the Making of Solidarities. A Response to Esther Ohito Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández Keep Yourself Alive: Welcoming the Next Generation of Queer and Trans Educators Harper Keenan Ambivalent Legacies: A Response to Harper Keenan Jen Gilbert 4 10 15 21 24 34 37 47 50 59 63 75 Vulnerable Literacies Alyssa Niccolini Mapping Common Grounds Between Mother and Child: A Response to Alyssa Niccolini Jennifer Rowsell Playing Through Tragedy: A Critical Approach to Welcoming Children’s Social Worldsand Play as Pedagogy Cassie Brownell Welcoming Play in Times of Trauma: A Response to Cassie Brownell Karen Wohlwend 79 85 88 97 Enlaces in Reflections and (Re)memberings as Latina Border Crossers: Journeys of Childhood and Professional Un/Welcomings 100 Ana Carolina Díaz Beltrán, PatyAbril-Gonzalez, Cinthya Saavedra, and Michelle Salazar Pérez Quintessential Jonathan 113 Virginia Casper The Times of Our Lives 116 Deborah Britzman Introduction Part 1 Welcoming Narratives in Education: A Tribute to the Life Work of Jonathan Silin Lisa Farley and

FAQs

What is the purpose of Issue 45 in the Occasional Paper Series?

Issue 45 is designed as a tribute to Jonathan Silin and reflects the series’ respect for the priorities that shaped his career.

How does the issue describe narrative’s role in education?

Narrative is presented as dialogic, interpretive, and transformative, helping reconnect fixed meanings with the fluidity of experiences, voices, and relationships.

What themes about childhood and development does the issue challenge?

It challenges dominant narratives that constrain who children are imagined to be and that deny children’s complex subjectivities, individualize socially produced traumas, or pathologize diverse loves and peoples.

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