Educational Research After the "Animal Turn": Speculative and World-Making Multispecies Encounters

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 20

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This session examines and speculates education as a multispecies project, starting from the assumption of human nature as an interspecies relation (Tsing, 2012). The presentations explore aspects of educational practice and research actualized at the intersections of multiple beings (Ogden et al., 2013) , involving human-animal relations in caring practices, in curricular discourses, as imaginary companions, as co-habitants in urban space, and as provocations for rethinking human exceptionalism in (post)qualitative research methodology. The studies engage in methodological approaches such as listening, speculative feminist storytelling, and attuning in response to how the animal turn pushes the boundaries of knowing and research. This work points at education as world-making beyond the limits of the humanist paradigm.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Environmental Education

Chair

• Pauliina Rautio, University of Oulu

Papers

• Speculating Ecologies: Invented Species as Real Relations - Pauliina Rautio, University of Oulu

• Animals and Educational Policies: A Multitier Approach to Educational Transformations - Maria Helena Saari, University of Oulu

• Touching Is Worlding: Examining Ethics and Politics of Touch in Child-Animal Relations - Tuure Tammi, University of Oulu; Riikka Hohti, University of Helsinki

• Where Wild Rats Roam: A Case Study on Students' Participation in Urban Citizen Science Project - Tuomas Aivelo, University of Helsinki; Suvi Huovelin, Heureka - Helsinki

• Insect-Thinking and Interspecies Transcorporeality: Re-Turning Revulsion and Irritation in Education's Human Exceptionalism - Riikka Hohti, University of Helsinki; Maggie MacLure, Manchester Metropolitan University

Discussant

• Karen Malone, Swinburne University of Technology