Be Like Fungi: Mycorrhizal Pedagogy

This chapter describes a case in which teacher educators (science and literacy) and teacher candidates co-created a place-based question and worked together as a community to find an answer using a decolonial framework from Learning in Places (2020). The case describes how the teacher educators and teacher candidates worked past structural barriers to co-construct an inquiry on what kinds of edible plants and fungi could be found on campus, and how the teacher candidates took lessons from the project to their students and cooperating teachers. Mycorrhizal Pedagogy is an idea created by the authors as an analogy to describe how teacher educators, teacher candidates, in-service teachers, and PreK-12 students across disciplines might break down some of the silos that exist in education using creative and caring connections.