Author Archives: Jennifer Foley

Jennifer Foley is an Educational Developer and academic exploring the intersections of critical pedagogy, learning processes, and material practice. Her work draws on craft as praxis and collaborative methodologies to examine knowledge assemblages and the infrastructures through which learning and information circulate. With a background in Library and Information Science (MLIS) and curriculum-aligned programming in museums and classrooms, she is particularly interested in how values are negotiated through everyday engagements with educational spaces and technologies. Her work attends to how pedagogical relationships emerge through practice, and to how writing, craft, and community can subvert hierarchical systems that organize knowledge by reimagining more open knowledge sharing ecosystems.
jfoley26@uwo.ca
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Networks of Knowledge Sharing: Becoming-With Mushrooms in Academia

Jennifer Foley August 13, 2026
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This piece is one branch of Becoming-With, a multispecies collective autoethnographic project developed with Dani Dilkes, Mandy Penney, and our four mushroom companions (Lion, Pearl, Blue, Pink); from here forward known as the Mushy Collective. Together, we explore what it means to “become-with” mushrooms by thinking through mycelial structures while cultivating fungi and imagining more generative futures for academic spaces. Within this project, my post will explore my personal journey reconsidering resource sharing, writing, care work, and decentralized collaboration through fungal logics. I will turn attention toward the hidden infrastructures that sustain the academy while often remaining undervalued. (read more...)

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A white mushroom with multiple delicate branches and a lace-lace structure. The background shows areas of dense white mycelium.

Becoming-with Mushrooms: Multispecies Collective Autoethnography for Reworlding Educational Environments

Jennifer Foley, Dani Dilkes, Mandy Penney June 19, 2026
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“Mycelium is ecological connective tissue, the living seam by which much of the world is stitched together.” — Sheldrake, 2020 “Multispecies relationality tuned to the temporal and semiotic registers makes evident a lively world in which being is always becoming, becoming is always becoming-with.” — van Dooren, 2016 Higher education in Canada is currently in a state of fragmentation, isolation, and disconnection, due in large part to shifting institutional motivations and ideologies, emerging technologies, political upheaval, and ecological estrangement. (read more...)

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