Putting Posthuman Theory to Work in Collaborative Self-Study

• In Event: 15.060 - MTCC Roundtable Session One
  In Roundtable Session: 15.060-11 - Investigating Personal and Professional Growth Through Self-Study

Abstract

We seek to disrupt linear, reductionist thinking that continues to dominate education research that we feel is currently inadequate for inquiring into self-study and teacher education phenomena (Authors, 2015). Herein, we have drawn on complex theories that reframe the world, and our collective existence and movement with/in it, as multiplistic, relational, vital, and materially embedded. As a self-study community, drawing on complex theories, such as rhizomatics and new materialisms, has aided us in theorizing our own collective development since our doctoral studies. In this collaborative self-study, we put posthuman perspectives to work to understand how theory affects/produces our practice and how theory affects/produces us as educators/researchers.

Authors

• Tammy Mills, University of Maine

• Charity Dacey, Montclair State University

• Kathryn J. Strom, California State University - East Bay

• Linda Whalen Abrams, Knowles Teacher Initiative