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This book explores concepts that engage new materiality theories to transform and enliven transdisciplinary educational research and practice.
List of 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.
About the author
Suzanne Smythe is Assistant Professor in Adult Literacy and Adult Education in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. She is the author of several articles and book chapters related to community-based adult learning, policy and digital equity.Cher Hill is Assistant Professor of Professional Practice and an in-service teacher educator in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia.Margaret MacDonald is Associate Professor in Early Childhood Education in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. With funding from a Canadian Foundation for Innovation grant, she researches young children's perspectives on environmental sustainability.Diane Dagenais is Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. She and Kelleen Toohey launched ScribJab, a website and free iPad application that enables language learners to compose, illustrate and narrate bilingual stories in French, English or another language.Nathalie Sinclair is the Canada Research Chair in Tangible Mathematics Learning at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. She is the author of several books, and the founding editor of the journal Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education.Kelleen Toohey is Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. With Diane Dagenais, she has investigated the language learning affordances of videomaking with multilingual children.
Summary
Disrupting Boundaries in Education and Research is written by and for education researchers and practitioners curious about the potential of new materiality and post-human theories to disrupt boundaries such as those between human and non-human, subject and object, to create new, transdisciplinary and perhaps more equitable and inclusive educational worlds.
