Posthumanism and Educational Research

Nathan Snaza is Director of the Bridge to Success Program and member of the English Department at the University of Richmond, USA. His writings have appeared in journals such as Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Angelaki, Educational Researcher and Journal of Critical Animal Studies.

Posthumanism challenges some of the most foundational concepts in educational theory and has implications within educational research, curriculum design and pedagogical interactions. In this volume, a group of international contributors use posthumanist theory to present new modes of institutional collaboration and pedagogical practice. They position posthumanism as a comprehensive theoretical project with connections to philosophy, animal studies, environmentalism, feminism, biology, queer theory and cognition.

Foreword by Dennis Carlson Introduction: Education and the Posthumanist Turn Nathan Snaza and John Weaver Part I: Humanism, Posthumanism, and Educational Research 1. Toward a Genealogy of Educational Humanism Nathan Snaza 2. Researching the Posthuman Paradigm: The "Subject" as Curricular Lens Brad Petitfils 3. Posthumanist Education and Animal Interiority Marla Morris 4. Educational Policy-Making for Social Change: A Post-Humanist Intervention Helena Pedersen 5. "Approximate-Rigorous-Abstractions": Propositions of Activation for Posthumanist Research Stephanie Springgay Part II: Attuning to the More Than Human Complexities of the Classroom 6. Ecologies of Praxis: Teaching and Learning Against the Obvious Nikki Rotas 7. Losing Animals: Ethics and Care in a Pedagogy of Recovery Alyce Miller Part III: Ecological Aesthetics 8. Affirmations and Limitations of Rancière's Aesthetics: Questions for Art and its Education in the Anthropocene Jan Jagodzinski 9. Dark Posthumanism, Unthinking Education, and Ecology at the End of the Anthropocene Jason Wallin Part IV: What Posthumanist Education Will Have Been 10. Undoing Anthropocentism in Educational Inquiry: A Phildickian Space Odyssey? Noel Gough 11. Resisting Becoming a Glomus Body Within Posthuman Theorizing: Mondialisation and Embodied Agency in Educational Research Annette Gough 12. To What Future Do the Posthuman and Posthumanism (Re)turn Us; Meanwhile, How Do I Tame the Lingering Effects of Humanism? John Weaver