Pedagogy Culture and Society· 2012Q1
Materialities, textures and pedagogies: socio-material assemblages in education
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This paper argues for understanding educational processes as socio-material assemblages, moving beyond individual-centric views to focus on the interplay of human and non-human elements in learning.
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Key points
- Educational research is moving away from individual-centric models towards situated and relational understandings of learning.
- The concept of socio-material assemblages offers a new framework for analyzing pedagogy.
- This framework decenters the human subject and emphasizes the role of action and interrelations in knowledge creation.
- It challenges representationalist conceptions of knowledge, focusing instead on how learning is rooted in practice.
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Abstract
First paragraph: Research in learning and pedagogy has for some time been turning away from preoccupation with individual learners, teachers or minds to embrace the situatedness of these processes and their many interrelations. Some researchers have explored socio-cultural or activity conceptions, some spatiality approaches, some 'practice-based' conceptions of learning, and some even draw from complexity science. All of these have sought to decentre a longterm educational focus on the individual human subject. They also eschew the domination in education of representationalist conceptions of knowledge, and explore ways that learning and knowing are rooted in action - including the ongoing action that brings forth the objects and identities constituting our worlds. At the same time they attempt to move beyond overly simplistic notions of 'participation' and 'community of practice' that have been so widely critiqued (inter alia Hughes, Jewson, and Unwin 2007).
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