Disrupting Boundaries in Education and Research

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· Cambridge University Press
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In Disrupting Boundaries in Education and Research, six educational researchers explore together the potentialities of transdisciplinary research that de-centres human behaviour and gives materiality its due in the making of educational worlds. The book presents accounts of what happens when researchers think and act with new materiality and post-human theories to disrupt boundaries such as self and other, human and non-human, representation and objectivity. Each of the core chapters works with different new materiality concepts to disrupt these boundaries and to consider the emotive, sensory, nuanced, material and technological aspects of learning in diverse settings, such as in mathematics and learning to swim, discovering the bio-products of 'eco-sustainable' building, making videos and contending with digital government and its alienating effects. When humans are no longer at the centre of the unfolding world it is both disorienting and exhilarating. This book is an invitation to continue along these paths.

About the author

Suzanne Smythe is Assistant Professor in Adult Literacy and Adult Education in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. She is the author of several articles and book chapters related to community-based adult learning, policy and digital equity.

Cher Hill is Assistant Professor of Professional Practice and an in-service teacher educator in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia.

Margaret MacDonald is Associate Professor in Early Childhood Education in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. With funding from a Canadian Foundation for Innovation grant, she researches young children's perspectives on environmental sustainability.

Diane Dagenais is Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. She and Kelleen Toohey launched ScribJab, a website and free iPad application that enables language learners to compose, illustrate and narrate bilingual stories in French, English or another language.

Nathalie Sinclair is the Canada Research Chair in Tangible Mathematics Learning at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. She is the author of several books, and the founding editor of the journal Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education.

Kelleen Toohey is Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. With Diane Dagenais, she has investigated the language learning affordances of videomaking with multilingual children.

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