Overview
- Examines how agential realism makes a difference ethically and politically for the world we are part of
- Illustrates how the philosophy works in all phases of education in terms of pedagogy and research
- Engages readers with radical implications for education when embracing posthumanist philosophy
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs on Key Thinkers in Education (BRIEFSKEY)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Keywords
- Agential Realism and Educational Practices
- Agential Realism
- Transdisciplinarity Research in Education
- Educational Science
- Diffraction in Educational Research
- Spatial and Temporal Diffraction in Education
- Response-ability
- De/Colonising Education
- Radical Educational
- Diffractive Teaching
- Multidirectional Learning
- Ethics of Teaching and Research Practices
- Politics of Teaching and Research Practices
- Karen Barad
About this book
This book is about becoming touched and moved by Karen Barad’s agential realism. Karen Barad as Educator is not biographical. It is not about Barad. There is much to be learned about teaching and education research through the human and other-than-human narrative characters in Barad’s writings and way of life. Reading this book is about becoming entangled with, and being inspired by, a passionate yearning for a radical reconfiguration of education in all its settings and phases (e.g., day-care centres, schools, colleges, universities, but also homes, museums or therapy rooms). This book will appeal to lecturers, teachers, artists, therapists, parents and grandparents, funders of education research, organisers of educational events, as well as detached youth workers. In short, this book will speak to anyone interested in the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of educational encounters and who is interested in alternatives to the dominant neoliberal national curricula, educational policies and humanist teaching, research, and conference agendas. The book aims to offer a gripping account for educators to be inspired by the invigorating and elusive philosophy of agential realism with a specific focus on iterative performative practices that profoundly matter to what counts as knowledge, teaching, learning and response-able education science.
Reviews
“This book is an ideal entry point for reading groups who are interested in slowing down to intra-act … with/along agential realism, posthumanism (and the posthuman condition), and (new) feminist materialism/s. … Reading groups and scholars engaging with this book might particularly be interested in further experimenting and theorising Murris’ plea for de/colonisation by adopting the diffractive methodology in teaching, learning, assessment, and education research.” (Petro du Preez, CriSTaL - Critical Studies in Teaching & Learning, Vol. 11 (1), 2023)
“A significant contribution to engagement with, and understanding of, Barad’s agential realism. … Murris’ book invites the reader in and provides possibilities and opportunities for participating in an agential realist approach to teaching and learning. … Karen Barad as educator: Agential realism and education engages with this undertaking, and also reconsiders and reconfigures teaching and learning in the process. I forone will be rereading Murris’ book, with each reading no doubt co-generating different patterns of understanding.” (Shae L. Brown, Australian Journal of Environmental Education, November 28, 2022)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr Karin Murris is Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Oulu and Emerita Professor of Philosophy and Pedagogy at the University of Cape Town. She is a teacher educator. Grounded in academic philosophy and a post qualitative research paradigm, her main research interests are in philosophy of education, early child/hood studies, ethics, children’s literature, and digital play. Amsterdam-born but having mostly lived and worked in the UK and Africa, her special expertise is researching early childhood, primary and teacher education in South Africa, and more recently, Finland.
Karin is currently the principal investigator of various projects in South Africa, including Responsible Innovation in Technology for Children (2022-23), The Post-Qualitative Research in Higher Education Collective (2021-2023), Children, Technology and Play (2019-2020) and Decolonising Early Childhood: Critical Posthumanism in Higher Education (2016-2019). She is Chief Editor of the Routledge Postqualitative, New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Research series and section editor of the new Routledge Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods. Karin is also an Invited member of the Advisory Board & Steering committee of the Childism Institute.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Karen Barad as Educator
Book Subtitle: Agential Realism and Education
Authors: Karin Murris
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0144-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-0143-0Published: 13 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-0144-7Published: 12 April 2022
Series ISSN: 2211-1921
Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 94
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Educational Philosophy, Sociology of Education, Research Methods in Education, Philosophy of Education, Education, general