66.021 - New Materialist Education 2: Toward Active Objects in Research Methodologies

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The papers on this panel reflect on the emergent discourse of the “new materialisms” in order to query its import for educational thought and practice. They focus on how new materialisms disrupt common notions of research methodology. This happens in two ways. First, it demands a new account of the materiality of the observing, knowing subject and the ways that subject is entangled within particular sites of research. Second, it alters our ability to exclude non-human “things” from educational research, challenging us to seek ways of representing things (lunch trays, computers, chalk boards, mold on ceilings) as participants in what Peter McLaren famously called “life in schools.”

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 3: Challenging Methodological and Representational Boundaries

Chair

• Nathan Snaza, University of Richmond

Papers

• Intratextual Entanglements: Exploring Text-Based Pedagogy Among Artists and Philosophers - Sarah E. Truman, University of Toronto - OISE

• Looking Back-Through: A Posthumanist Proposition - Zofia Zaliwska, University of Toronto - OISE

• Entanglement - Robert James Helfenbein, Loyola University Maryland

• Caring, Culling, and Pedagogy: The Entangled Lives of Teaching, Inquiry, and Gardening - Jake Burdick, Purdue University; Hannah Dockrill, Purdue University

Discussant

• Jennifer L. Milam, Our Lady of the Elms (Elementary School, Principal)