From Reflection to Diffraction: What Toto Teaches Us About “Thinking-With” Multispecies Companions in Education

Abstract

This paper focuses on how, like Toto from the Wizard of Oz (Baum, 1900) , animal companions can alter the course of reflective practice by encouraging diffractive shifts in thinking, different connections with the world, and a (re)connection with, or re-framing of personal and professional values and ethics.