The Sound of Social Studies Job Searches: The Possibilities of Posthuman Listening

Abstract

This poetic inquiry was produced by a posthuman sound and listening of audio from a focus group of social studies education pre-service teachers. The (re)listening allowed me to hear the relation between social studies education, patriarchy, and sports. This inquiry attends to the potestas, or limiting forces, heard in the audio, and it reflects on the potentia, a generative force, of posthuman sound and listening as an opening to learn more about forces that affect pre-service social studies educators as they enter the field of teaching, while avoiding the field of football.