Studying Entanglements: Research Making Good Trouble

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

New materialism, posthumanism, and agential realism give educational researchers new ways to think about data. In this session three researchers attempt to take on these perspectives by analyzing data relative to early literacy learning, school children's explorations of animal rights, and teachers’ artistic responses when studying indigenous rights. These theories make good trouble challenging taken-for-granted assumptions about literacy education and research and by recognizing the entanglements that implicate literacy in relations of injustice.

Content Area

• AREA 7. Critical, Cultural, and Social Issues of Literacy Practices In and Out of School

Chair

• Hilary Janks, University of the Witwatersrand

Discussant

• Jaye Johnson Thiel, University of Alabama

Individual Presentations

• The Entanglement of Matter and Meaning: A Posthuman Account of the Emergence of a Child’s Picturebook - Hilary Janks, University of the Witwatersrand

• Re-turning to Collage: An Entanglement with Agential Realism - Mitzi Lewison, Indiana University; Lee Heffernan, MCCSC

• Entanglements as Provocation - Jerome C Harste, Indiana University