(A)Historicity in Critical Posthuman and Postfoundational Studies in Education: Toward Educational Renewal and Reparative Futures

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium aims to bring historical interrogations into critical posthuman and postfoundational studies in education. In alignment with the AERA 2025 meeting’s theme of “Research, Remedy, and Repair,” presenters from diverse backgrounds critically engage with linear notions of temporality that are shaped by racialized, colonial, and humanistic perspectives. Alternatively, this session proposes a reimagination of posthuman and postfoundational possibilities in education through reparative relationships to the futures. Papers demonstrate the historical contingency of contemporary educational issues, including Black liberatory STEM education, white-centered norms in transpacific education reforms, and humanistic nature in environmental education. By fostering an interdisciplinary conversation, this symposium offers innovative methodological insights on using historical analysis to address educational injustices and to envision equitable futures from critical perspectives.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Posthuman and Postfoundational Studies in Education

Chair

• Thomas S. Popkewitz, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Papers

• Black Liberatory STEM Education Beyond the Liberal Imagination - Erika C. Bullock, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• John Dewey and the Question of Global Whiteness: A Postfoundational History of Transpacific Education Reforms - Sun Young Lee, Wichita State University

• Teacher Education Research, Phantasmagrams, and Equitable Futures that Exclude - Thomas S. Popkewitz, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Discussant

• Nelson Flores, University of Pennsylvania