C2 Edited work
New Materialist Explorations into Language Education (2023)


Ennser-Kananen, J., & Saarinen, T. (Eds.). (2023). New Materialist Explorations into Language Education. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13847-8


JYU authors or editors


Publication details

All authors or editorsEnnser-Kananen, Johanna; Saarinen, Taina

Parent publication editorsEnnser-Kananen Johanna; Saarinen Taina

ISBN978-3-031-13846-1

eISBN978-3-031-13847-8

Publication year2023

Publication date11/10/2022

Number of pages in the book190

PublisherSpringer International Publishing

Place of PublicationCham

Publication countrySwitzerland

Publication languageEnglish

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13847-8

Publication open accessOpenly available

Publication channel open accessPartially open access channel

Publication is parallel published (JYX)https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/83596


Abstract

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.


Keywordslanguage teachinglanguagesmaterialismsocial constructivismsocial justiceeducation and trainingeducational technologyresourcesevaluationresearchers

Free keywordsmaterialism in language education; materialism and language; agential realism and language education; social justice and language education; change in language education; constructivist approaches for socially just applied linguistics; The 2012 Flemish educational reform debate; co-located schools; resources, means and modalities of language learning; changes in language assessment; hybrid language classrooms; new materialism theory; open access


Contributing organizations


Ministry reportingYes

VIRTA submission year2023

JUFO rating2


This publication includes articles with JYU authors:

Last updated on 2024-03-07 at 00:06