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New Materialist Explorations into Language Education

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dc.contributor Ennser-Kananen, Johanna
dc.contributor Saarinen, Taina
dc.date 2022-10-15T04:10:29Z
dc.date 2022-10-15T04:10:29Z
dc.date 2022-10-14T10:39:50Z
dc.date 2023
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-17T21:29:13Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-17T21:29:13Z
dc.identifier ONIX_20221014_9783031138478_23
dc.identifier https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58646
dc.identifier https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/92908
dc.identifier https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/58646/1/978-3-031-13847-8.pdf
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/247518
dc.description This open access book analyzes language education through a socio-material framework. The authors revisit their position as researchers by decentering themselves and humans in general from the main focus of research activities and giving way to the materialities that are agentive but often overlooked parts of our research contexts and processes. Through this critical posthumanist realism, they are able to engage in research that sees society as an ethical interrelationship between humans and the material world and explore the socio-materialities of language education from the perspectives of material agency, spatial and embodied materiality, and human and non-human assemblages. Each chapter explores language educational contexts through a unique lens of (socio)materiality. Based on how the authors conceptualize (socio)materiality, the book is organized in three sections that seek answers to the following overarching questions: In what ways do material agencies emerge in language educational contexts? How are educational choices and experiences intertwined with materialities of spaces and bodies? What assemblages of human and non-human may occur in language education contexts? Each chapter questions, in its own way, the notion of the human subject as rational, enlightened being and sole possessor of agency, and offers examples of allowing for other-than-human agency to enter the picture. Together, the contributors exemplify how researchers who have been committed to social constructionist thinking for most of their careers learn to make space for new theories, thus inspiring and encouraging readers to remain open for new intellectual and embodied endeavors.
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dc.language eng
dc.publisher Springer Nature
dc.publisher Springer
dc.rights open access
dc.subject Materialism in Language Education
dc.subject Materialism and Language
dc.subject Agential Realism and Language Education
dc.subject Social Justice and Language Education
dc.subject Change in Language Education
dc.subject Constructivist Approaches for Socially just Applied Linguistics
dc.subject The 2012 Flemish Educational Reform Debate
dc.subject Co-located Schools
dc.subject Resources, Means and Modalities of Language Learning
dc.subject Changes in Language Assessment
dc.subject Hybrid Language Classrooms
dc.subject New Materialism Theory
dc.subject bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CJ Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)
dc.subject bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CB Language: reference & general
dc.subject bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFB Sociolinguistics
dc.title New Materialist Explorations into Language Education
dc.resourceType book
dc.alternateIdentifier 9783031138478
dc.alternateIdentifier 10.1007/978-3-031-13847-8
dc.licenseCondition open access
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dc.identifierdoi 10.1007/978-3-031-13847-8
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dc.relationisbn 9783031138478
dc.pages 190
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