Author Archives: Mandy Penney

Mandy Penney (she/her) is a cis, white, queer, and disabled settler and scholar originally from the Atlantic Ocean island of Ktaqmkuk, which is the Mi'kmaq name for Newfoundland. Her primary areas of interest include justice-oriented teaching and learning, linguistic and disability justice, critical digital pedagogies, and communities of practice and care. She is also deeply committed to the lifelong work of unlearning colonial structures and approaches through decolonial approaches to relationality and care in higher education.
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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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