What haunts pedagogical documentation? Speculating with data-ghost(s)

With the imaginary of a data-ghost(s), I use ideas from hauntology to speculate about what haunts pedagogical documentation. By re-turning to an example of documentation of young children encountering a hatchery where eggs incubated into chicks, I notice the absences of what was not documented as hauntings. With performative and playful writing, I speculate with artworks and dialogue as a way of speaking of, to and with ghosts (Derrida, 2006). By thinking with the relationships between past-present-future, I ponder what inheritances, response-abilities and possibilities emerge. Through slowing down with data-ghost(s), I speculate with what haunts and hauntings’ call for something-to-be-done (Gordon, 2008) to imagine what becomes possible for practices in the present and future for classroom practice and teacher education.