An Ethos of Wander Time: Staying with the Trouble to Make Sense During Crises

Amidst a steady clamor about “learning loss” during the pandemic, minority of educators have cautioned we must, in words Donna Haraway, “stay with trouble,” giving children space to grieve, explore, and make sense new reality. In this paper I interrogate what it means stay trouble specifically call for refer as wander time schools. With phrase time, reference 40 years Ancient Israelites spent wandering desert after they left Egypt slaves before founded nation Israel. Taking phenomenological approach, then illustrate practical implications potential through study my preschool-age son’s yearlong self-directed adult supported multimedia exploration Transformers (vehicles popular culture that transform into robots human-like personalities). document how exploration, son articulated fears, stayed with, made troubles. close by analyzing pedagogy suggest