Learning with Place©: Pedagogical Leadership for Doing ‘Otherwise’

The Learning with Place© framework is a process for change, grounded in positioning local Place first. Generated from a decade-long post-qualitative inquiry—Learning with Place©—focused on pedagogy and practices, the framework creates the conditions to rethink leadership as ‘otherwise’. In this paper, we will offer pedagogical leadership as relational leadership situated in local Place that encompasses collective thinking and relational professional learning to disrupt expected hierarchical contextless leadership. Using speculative fiction, we will share what it means to reimagine pedagogical leadership in new ways, with the intention of offering the possibility of what can eventually happen in the practice of pedagogical leadership. Our speculations make visible how pedagogical leadership should move beyond education settings and be connected with local histories, stories, and the more-than-human. These entanglements provide innovative ways to engage with local and global issues and work towards the common good.