ABOUT ABC
ABC, or AmberBeckyCreative, is a collaboration between two Missourians now living and working in Florida, USA - one near the Forgotten Coast and the other near the Gold. We (Rebecca C. Christ, Florida International University and Amber Ward, Florida State University) employ ABC as a name to demonstrate that we contribute collectively and equally to all our written and creative work and as an act of resistance to the neo-liberal, patriarchal academy that values individualism and competition over all else. Our work (both together and independently) explores pedagogy and qualitative inquiry using critical, postcolonial, poststructural, and posthuman concepts for the purpose of inspiring new ways of be(com)ing, doing, and knowing.
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Amber Ward, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Art Education in the Department of Art Education at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. Amber’s research considers who and what matters in learning/teaching and why, in a program that connects the outside world both with humanity and art. Using creative approaches of inquiry, she is interested in the material practices of craft, feminism, and sustainability with an aim of mending the world around us. Her scholarship can be found in Art Education, Art/Research International, Arts & Humanities in Higher Education, IMAG, International Review of Qualitative Research, Journal of Embodied Research, Journal of Social Theory and Art, Knowledge Cultures, Studies in Art Education, Qualitative Inquiry, and Visual Arts Research. Amber has presented her artwork and scholarship in state, national, and international exhibitions and conferences, respectively.
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Rebecca C. Christ, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Social Studies Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. Her research interests include social studies education and teacher education—specifically focusing on genocide education. She is also interested in pedagogies of qualitative inquiry and in utilizing critical, postcolonial, poststructural, and posthuman theoretical concepts for inspiration and innovation within qualitative inquiry and pedagogical practice. Rebecca's work is published in a variety of outlets, including Journal of Social Studies Research, Qualitative Inquiry, Knowledge Cultures, and edited texts. She is the co-author of Speculative Pedagogies of Qualitative Inquiry (2020, Routledge), and she guest co-edited a special issue of Qualitative Inquiry on what pedagogies of qualitative inquiry produce.
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SCHOLARLY & CREATIVE WORKS
ABC. (2022). (K)not mattering: Ethical (re)considerations of material, methodological, and pedagogical responsibilities. International Review of Qualitative Research. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19408447221090658
ABC. (2021, April). (K)not mattering: Ethical (re)considerations of material, methodological, and pedagogical responsibilities. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. Virtual meeting.
Rufo, R., Ben-David, A., Cary, C. A., Borland-Sentinella, D., Phillips, L. G., Owen, A., … ABC. (2020). Embodiment and social distancing: Practices. Journal of Embodied Research, 3(2), 3 (27:50). DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/jer.66
ABC. (2020). Featured artists. 64th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society: vCIES 2020 Miami. Braiding and sphering: (In)forming friends in a more-than-human-world. Miami, FL. Jurors: Iveta Silova & Mariia Vitrukh. Curator: Maria Apostolidis.
ABC. (2020, May). (K)not mattering: The ethics and materiality. Workshop facilitation “Arts-Based Research SIG ICQI Preconference Symposium” with Gerber, N., Hofsess, B., & Archibald, M. Chairs: Nancy Gerber & Richard Siegesmund. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Champaign-Urbana, IL. (Canceled due to COVID).
ABC. (2021, April). (K)not mattering: Ethical (re)considerations of material, methodological, and pedagogical responsibilities. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. Virtual meeting.
Rufo, R., Ben-David, A., Cary, C. A., Borland-Sentinella, D., Phillips, L. G., Owen, A., … ABC. (2020). Embodiment and social distancing: Practices. Journal of Embodied Research, 3(2), 3 (27:50). DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/jer.66
ABC. (2020). Featured artists. 64th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society: vCIES 2020 Miami. Braiding and sphering: (In)forming friends in a more-than-human-world. Miami, FL. Jurors: Iveta Silova & Mariia Vitrukh. Curator: Maria Apostolidis.
ABC. (2020, May). (K)not mattering: The ethics and materiality. Workshop facilitation “Arts-Based Research SIG ICQI Preconference Symposium” with Gerber, N., Hofsess, B., & Archibald, M. Chairs: Nancy Gerber & Richard Siegesmund. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Champaign-Urbana, IL. (Canceled due to COVID).