Inhabiting the Cracks: Accumulating Creative Ruptions to Change Education

Abstract

AbstractIn this final chapter of Creative Ruptions, we revisit the claims made in Chappell with Turner and Wren, Creating Spaces for Ruptions and Provocations in Creative Ruptions for Emergent Educational Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. That this book would show how ethical, care-ful educational futures might emerge through creative ruptions; that we would provide hope and show how to do education differently; that we would provide direct educational responses as examples and tools; and that we would show how different authors create productive ruptions. We demonstrate how this has happened by dealing with the bigger questions around how we handle creative ruptions and what they in themselves ‘do’ through the notion of accumulation thresholds. We go on to demonstrate how the creative ruptions in this book respond to various wicked problems, and then end by offering ways of thinking-being-doing to push matters forward. This includes considering how we can expand our emotional repertoires from anxiety to also include hope and courage, positioning the contribution of this book in relation with colleagues working in decolonisation and possibilities studies. As ever, these are the throughlines that have emerged for us as editors, which are undoubtedly multi-dimensional, but there are many other ways that you can travel through this book and enter into new trajectories from it.