Feminist Posthumanisms, New Materialisms and Education

Jessica Ringrose, Katie Warfield, Shiva Zarabadi, Jessica Ringrose, Katie Warfield, Shiva Zarabadi

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781351186650
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This edited collection is a careful assemblage of papers that have contributed to the maturing field within education studies that works with the feminist implications of the theories and methodologies of posthumanism and new materialism – what we have also called elsewhere 'PhEmaterialism'.

The generative questions for this collection are: what if we locate education in doing and becoming rather than being? And, how does associating education with matter, multiplicity and relationality change how we think about agency, ontology and epistemology? This collection foregrounds cutting edge educational research that works to trouble the binaries between theory and methodology. It demonstrates new forms of feminist ethics and response-ability in research practices, and offers some coherence to this new area of research. This volume will provide a vital reference text for educational researchers and scholars interested in this burgeoning area of theoretically informed methodology and methodologically informed theory.

The chapters in this book were originally published as articles in Taylor & Francis journals.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Introducing Feminist Posthumanisms/New Materialisms & Educational Research: Response-able Theory-Practice-Methodology
• 1. Voice in the agentic assemblage
• 2. Images of thinking in feminist materialisms: ontological divergences and the production of researcher subjectivities
• 3. Learning to be affected: Matters of pedagogy in the artists’ soup kitchen
• 4. Objects, bodies and space: gender and embodied practices of mattering in the classroom
• 5. Gettin’ a little crafty: Teachers Pay Teachers©, Pinterest© and neo-liberalism in new materialist feminist research
• 6. Dexter time: the space, time, and matterings of school absence registration
• 7. Diffractive pedagogies: dancing across new materialist imaginaries
• 8. Selfies, relfies and phallic tagging: posthuman part-icipations in teen digital sexuality assemblages
• 9. Learning with children, ants, and worms in the Anthropocene: towards a common world pedagogy of multispecies vulnerability
• 10. A Walk in the Park: Considering Practice for Outdoor Environmental Education Through an Immanent Take on the Material Turn
• Index