ESW Open Seminar Series
CHEER
Monday 9th June, 5pm
Room 104, Fulton
Speaker
Tara Fenwick, Professor of Professional Education and Director
of ProPEL – international Network for Research in Professional
Practice, Education and Learning, University of Stirling
presents:
‘Matters’ of Professional Learning in Practice:
Tracing the sociomaterial
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The materiality of everyday interaction is too often ignored,
dismissed or isolated in educational research. Yet educational
practices are intimately enmeshed with instruments, software,
texts and forms, bodies and discourses – all of which embed a
history of politics and ethics.
In this seminar, Professor Fenwick will outline a different
‘sociomaterial’ configuration that has been circulating in the
broader social sciences with potential for understanding dynamics
of learning, pedagogy, curriculum, policy, etc. Drawing on Karen
Barad’s sociomaterial analyses, she will focus particularly on
methodologies for researching learning in different settings,
illustrating the strategies and insights - as well as the dilemmas in working with sociomaterial approaches to make visible the
materialities of learning.
This seminar can be joined remotely by logging on to:
https://connectpro.sussex.ac.uk/cheer_fenwick9jun14
This seminar will also be recorded and available to view
retrospectively at: www.sussex.ac.uk/education/seminars