Sustaining the unsustainable: Wearable technologies as informing running-practice in urban schools

Abstract

Using wearable technologies in educational research and in relation to group-running, this paper inquires into new methodological landscapes through posthumanist and new materialist theories and methodologies.Embedding practice in an urban school in Canada, this paper particularly engages with the material and materiality of environments as a way to flesh out a methodology that attends to the complexity of technologically-mediated bodies in movement.This understanding suggests that technologies matter in ways that are generative of the 'realities' in cities, communities, and what is learned in schools.Concluding with a questioning of data and what might become of it, I suggest that a re-valuation of data, method, and methodology -as that which is part of a continuum -might redraw new cartographies in educational research.

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