Experimenting with Digital Pedagogical Inquiry Research:

Early childhood educator co-researchers and a pedagogist-researcher think together about the processes of collaboration created with a pedagogical inquiry project rooted in pandemic times. We detail our imperfect practices of creating digital methods of pedagogical documentation that emerged in response to COVID-19 policies that bounded our research. Thinking with propositions for practicing slow scholarship and situated improvisations, we grapple with two contradictions that mattered to our work: time and productivity, and writing and dialoguing. Through theoretical provocations and educator re-visitings, we offer practices toward thinking digital pedagogical documentation as an unfamiliar and fraught, but deeply generative and collective-building, ongoing project.