Network 22: Post-approaches to Education

This network supports research that explores how human and non-human subjects connect in the becoming of knowledge. What happens when we see human and non-human entities constituted together and in constant intra-action with each other? In educational situations, this may involve subjects connecting and building relationships with the body, matter, nature, and animals. We follow the flows and movements, highlighting how these produce intertwinings of various kinds. We pay special attention to when something unexpected occurs, such as when the body speaks or when language, matter, and nature question our understanding of what we take for granted.

A posthuman approach implies being part of the world, embedded, entangled, and always becoming. It is not research on or for the world but with worlds. As such, distinguishing the transformative capacities for change, transformation, or movement, or the differences that post-human approaches to education make, can be difficult. In this pre-conference, we wish to address the “troubles of transformation” in post-qualitative methodologies. We want to engage in dialogue and gather different ways of worlding. A range of possibilities includes: affirmative forms of critique, the development of new concepts, new explorative approaches, affective engagements, experiments and laboratories, diffraction apparatuses, and new thinking technologies.

The use of the phrase “post-approaches” strives not to limit ourselves to one specific theoretical approach but to remain open to including new critical ideas that otherwise have trouble finding their community in the educational field.

More information on the history of the network can be found here.

Key-words: posthumanism, post-structuralism, post-qualitative inquiry