ABSTRACT
This chapter provides further background on the nature of the research project that focused on one lesson in a South African grade 2 classroom. It explains how the project emerged through a particular coincidence of circumstances: a course for foundation phase teachers, a visiting practitioner from the UK (Sara Stanley), a partnership school of the University of Cape Town and a wonderful picturebook How to Find Gold (Schwarz 2016). The chapter reports on ‘methods’ adopted in the project, the ‘apparatus’ of the project and the material and relational nature of the research practices. The complexities of its creative and experimental character are discussed and the ethical questions it provoked are opened up for consideration. The chapter includes an account of the many layers of the project as it unfolded: intra-views with and between Sara and Viviane; residential research workshops. The chapter concludes with a flavour of the writing that follows in Part II with a particular focus on the philosophical methods used.
