Enactments of Scholarly Generosity:

Reflexiones on the Intersection of Our Selves, the Work of Beth Swadener, and Childhood/s Futures

Abstract

This multigenerational testimonio shows the great potential of scholarly mentoring to open and protect spaces for expansive onto-epistemology: the richness of being and knowing that can emerge within the confluence of languages, cultures, ideas, and scholarly relationships founded on co-learning. The authors are examples that the theory-practice divide is a false dichotomy, providing reflexiones spanning their work with children and families labeled at risk, their own experiences resisting containment by at-risk discourse, and the humanizing experience of at-promise relationships, both with each other and within an extended kinship network of critical childhood scholars.