Christie Byers

Christie C. Byers is a teacher educator and education researcher at George Mason University. Her work explores participatory learning and becoming from a process-relational perspective, with a particular focus on the role of wonder in attuning us to “what else is possible” within ordinary experience. She investigates how practices of attention and engagement, especially with the more-than-human world, can open new ways of thinking and acting, fostering more ethical and caring ways of living in relation. Her research spans teacher education, science education, and qualitative inquiry, with an emphasis on the relational, affective, and emergent dimensions of experience.