Writing we: Collaborative text in educational research

In this chapter we examine the critical possibilities of collaborative writing, as multiple layers of
<br />voices intertwine to produce and understand collaborative authorship. We seek to challenge the
<br />politics and epistemological assumptions of the do-your-own-work mentality pervasive throughout education. Through a theoretical, methodological and ethnographically thick exploration of collaboratively produced text, we offer a different paradigm for understanding and producing knowledge. Cowriting is examined as an unfolding, polyvocal, and necessarily
<br />multifaceted journey toward a new critical pedagogy of working “with.”