Posthumanism and educational research /

Focusing on the interdependence between human, animal, and machine, posthumanism redefines the meaning of the human being previously assumed in knowledge production. This movement challenges some of the most foundational concepts in educational theory and has implications within educational research...

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Other Authors: Snaza, Nathan, Weaver, John A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2015.
Series:Routledge international studies in the philosophy of education ; 35.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Education and the Posthumanist Turn; Part I: Humanism, Posthumanism, and Educational Research; 1 Toward a Genealogy of Educational Humanism; 2 Researching the Posthuman Paradigm: The "Subject" as Curricular Lens; 3 Posthumanist Education and Animal Interiority; 4 Educational Policy Making for Social Change: A Posthumanist Intervention; 5 "Approximate-Rigorous-Abstractions": Propositions of Activation for Posthumanist Research
  • Part II: Attuning to the More-Than-Human Complexities of the Classroom; 6 Ecologies of Praxis: Teaching and Learning against the Obvious; 7 Losing Animals: Ethics and Care in a Pedagogy of Recovery; Part III: Ecological Aesthetics; 8 Affirmations and Limitations of Rancière's Aesthetics: Questions for Art and Its Education in the Anthropocene; 9 Dark Posthumanism, Unthinking Education, and Ecology at the End of the Anthropocene; Part IV: What Posthumanist Education Will Have Been; 10 Undoing Anthropocentrism in Educational Inquiry: A Phildickian Space Odyssey?
  • 11 Resisting Becoming a Glomus Body within Posthuman Theorizing: Mondialisation and Embodied Agency in Educational Research12 To What Future Do the Posthuman and Posthumanism (Re)turn Us; Meanwhile, How Do I Tame the Lingering Effects of Humanism?; Contributors; Index