I knock at the stone's front door: performative pedagogies beyond the human story

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Buildings as non‐human narrators: Between post‐phenomenological and object‐oriented architectural geographies

“…In posthuman pedagogy, discussing the possibilities of object‐fictions and thing‐focused methodologies, Bennett (2016) proposed a shift from an extreme, speculative posthumanism that (vainly) tries to grasp the things without us towards a mild, ethical posthumanism that more modestly aims to grasp the things with us . Mcphie has shown how the employment of the it‐narrative in outdoor settings exposed his students to “the distributed agency of buildings” (2018, p. 306). Most importantly, Mcphie has underlined that it is not only a matter of writing the it‐narratives but also one of “ thinking from the perspective of a thing ” that can “promote the potential for more equitable thinking/behaviour” (2018, p. 309).…”

Tensions, knots, and lines of flight: themes and directions of travel for new materialisms and environmental education

“…The picture no longer holds with a new materialist lens, where 'no primacy of the human actor individual or collectiveover the nonhuman actor can be accepted on a priori grounds' (Knappett and Malafouris 2008, xi). Latour (1999) suggested agency 'resides in the blind spot in which society and matter exchange properties ' (p. 190), yet society is itself matter-ed, and so agency can be thought of as co-constructed and distributed in time and space, regardless of the human actoras the human actor is also a co-constructed multiplicity of other so-called actants bacteria, virus, fungal mycelium, water, mites, plastic, and concepts (see Mcphie 2018). This point is made particularly well within this special issue by Tammi (2019) with their exploration of how 'mold-schools' emerge as sites of interaction between practices and beings both human and other-than-human.…”

“…In our wider work, we had already started examining some of the specific issues and implications that the new materialisms might raise for the field of environmental education (see Clarke 2017;Mcphie 2014, 2016;Mcphie 2018;Clarke 2015, 2018;Clarke 2019). While with the encouragement and support of the journal's board, we proposed to guest edit a special issue that would broaden and deepen such conversations.…”

Young people’s tech identity performances: why materiality matters

“…From this perspective, Barad has critiqued poststructuralist perspective on agency, arguing, for instance, that ‘for both Butler and Foucault, agency belongs only to the human domain’ (2007, p. 145). Barad’s notion of ‘distributed agency’ has been productively taken up in different ways in existing scholarship across various research domains, such as to explore performative pedagogies in getting university students to narrate the distributed agency of buildings (Mcphie, 2018 ) and to examine the power dynamics of the classroom (Murris, 2016 ).…”