Full Description
In Disrupting Boundaries in Education and Research, six educational researchers explore together the potentialities of transdisciplinary research that de-centres human behaviour and gives materiality its due in the making of educational worlds. The book presents accounts of what happens when researchers think and act with new materiality and post-human theories to disrupt boundaries such as self and other, human and non-human, representation and objectivity. Each of the core chapters works with different new materiality concepts to disrupt these boundaries and to consider the emotive, sensory, nuanced, material and technological aspects of learning in diverse settings, such as in mathematics and learning to swim, discovering the bio-products of 'eco-sustainable' building, making videos and contending with digital government and its alienating effects. When humans are no longer at the centre of the unfolding world it is both disorienting and exhilarating. This book is an invitation to continue along these paths.
Contents
1. Introduction: theories of the material; 2. Materiality and language learning in classrooms: re-thinking ethnographic research?; 3. Poo theatre: young children's dramatic intra-actions with a bioreactor; 4. Education as instauration: extending bodily learning from early childhood to teacher education; 5. Mathematics learning as an entanglement of child, concept and technology; 6. 'I see you're a little confused': intra-action and entangled agencies in an adult digital learning program; Conclusion: creating new stories of education and research.
