Posthuman Object Pedagogies: Thinking with Things to Think with Theory for Innovative Educational Research

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https://doi.org/10.18733/cpi29662

Abstract

Educational practices and learning processes are entangled with a multitude of objects but these objects are often positioned as dull, inert matter, disregarded as mundane, left unnoticed, and made subservient to the proper business of educating. The authors see them a vital intra-acting bodies that help scholars to think differently about pedagogy and research.

Author Biographies

Carol A. Taylor, University of Bath

Carol A. Taylor is Professor of Higher Education and Gender in the Department of Education, University of Bath. Carol’s research activates posthumanist, post-qualitative, and feminist materialist approaches to explore the entangled relations of knowledge-power-gender-space-ethics in higher education.

Hannah Hogarth, University of Bath

Hannah Hogarth is a doctoral student in the Department of Education, University of Bath. Hannah is researching with young children and non-human nature in an urban forest school, exploring the entangled childhoodnature relations that emerge during outdoor play, using post-qualitative inquiry and posthuman and new materialist theories.

Elisabeth Barratt Hacking, University of Bath

Elisabeth Barratt Hacking is Senior Lecturer/Deputy Head, Department of Education, University of Bath. Elisabeth’s research is in the overlapping areas of environmental education – specifically, childhood and environment – and global citizenship, and advances theory, policy and practice around ‘childhoodnature’, a concept co-created with Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles and Karen Malone.

Eliane Bastos, University of Bath

Eliane Bastos is an Education PhD Researcher at the University of Bath (UK). She is interested in children’s understanding of the human-ocean relationship, children’s ocean learning experiences, and in understanding how primary school children reflect their learning into the everyday through storying with objects.

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2022-12-17

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Articles, Illustrations and Verse