Posthumanist Pedagogy for Early Childhood Educational Technology: Entangled Moments with Educational Robots

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Abstract

This study reimagines teacher pedagogy in early childhood educational technology through a posthuman lens, foregrounding the entangled, embodied, and material relations among a teacher, child, and educational robot. Drawing on diffractive analysis and posthuman pedagogy, we examine moments of improvisational engagement between a preservice teacher and a child in a robotics after-school program. This study illustrates how the teacher’s attunement to emergent entanglements disrupted traditional binaries—play/learning, human/nonhuman, formal/informal—recasting technology as a co-participant in relational pedagogy. The study highlights how pedagogical shifts toward dwelling, noticing, and intra-action open new possibilities for teacher education and early STEM learning. Educational technology, in this framing, is no longer a neutral tool but a co-participant in relational pedagogy.

Authors

• Sung Eun Jung, University of Arizona

• Sung Ryung Lyu, American University

• Seongryeong Yu, Old Dominion University