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Finding Child beyond Child:
a critical posthumanist orientation to foundation phase
teacher education
Karin Murris and Kathryn Muller
Question Mark Taken from “The Visitors Who came to Stay” Annalena McAfee/Anthony Browne
Guiding aims of education
Qualification: acquisition of
knowledge, skills and
dispositions
Socialisation: learning to do
what/as others do
Subjectification: formation
and transformation of the
person
Relational Material
subjectification
Reading Biesta & Barad
diffractively
(Murris, 2016)
Diffraction as object and method
Throwing two stones in a pond
creating a diffraction pattern or
‘superposition’ (Barad 2007)
Focus on difference not identity:
positive difference. Forever
becoming & beyond binaries.
Reflection: a distance from the world incl. self.
Focus on identity, and an individual ‘stepping
back’. Looking for the same/similar.
Popular metaphor in research and assessment
Anthropomorphic ontology and epistemology
Reflection misses important knowledges
Subjectification
Socialisation: becoming part of an existing
order and the creation of an identity through
identification with that order.
Subjectification: guided by freedom and is
about existence “outside” such orders.
Formation and transformation of students and
teachers into “subjects” coming into presence as
individuals, as independent agents actively
shaping society.
But not in isolation!
Relational ontology, an event
Hannah Arendt’s notion of action:
Each person’s ‘coming into presence’ depends
on how their beginnings are taken up by
others.
“The way in which others take up my
beginnings are radically beyond my control”
(Biesta, 1994: 143).
So, a subject’s coming into world is always
shaped by the actions of others.
What is the ‘superposition’?
Biesta: a subject is an existential event, not an
identity or essence (Biesta, 2014, p.143).
Therefore, education should start “by articulating
an interest in that which announces itself as a
new beginning” (Biesta, 2014, p.143).
Barad: meaning and matter are always
ontologically entangled – against an
anthropocentric epistemology = the idea that
meaning making is a process between humans
only
‘Relational material subjectification’
Biesta: agency is a human affair, so his subjectification
is still humanist
Barad: agency of the environment, things, materials
and places in the on-going interrelations and mutual
processes of transformation emerging in-between
human organisms and matter and in-between different
matter irrespective of human intervention (Palmer
2011)
subjectification is not only discursive, but also material
– the materiality of the human and nonhuman bodies
involved in producing the event
UCT PGCE FP Curriculum
• Education(al Studies) 32 7
• Childhood Studies 10 7
• Life Skills 10 7
• Special Studies 10 7
• Teaching Literacy in Multilingual contexts 10 7
• Mathematics 10 7
• School Experience 32 7
• Xhosa communication (non-credit bearing)
• Communication skills in English (non-credit bearing)
The Childhood Studies course
“This experientially course draws on philosophy of education to
explore key issues in childhood education. The theories we will be
looking at will be used to articulate justifications for certain educational
practices and for most of this year we will be exploring the ‘why’ of
what we do in class as teachers. Broadly speaking, the theoretical
orientation of the course is critical posthumanist, or, sometimes called
relational materialist. In the process of exploring the implications of
posthumanism for childhood education, we will be guided by three
aims of education, and touch on psychological and sociological theories
of childhood, including developmental psychology and Vygotsky. Key
questions are ‘What is knowledge?’, ‘What is learning?’ in the context
of the core question ‘What is child?. From a multidisciplinary
perspective, the course examines shifting conceptions of child and
childhood and the implications for pedagogy…….”
Figurations of
child
Theoretical
Influences
What child lacks by
Nature:
What Culture
needs to provide
Developing child Aristotle,
Darwin, Piaget,
Vygotsky
Maturity Maturation;
Guidance
Ignorant child Plato, Aristotle,
Locke
Rationality;
Experience
Instruction;
Training
Evil child Christianity esp.
Protestantism
Trustworthiness,
natural goodness
Control, discipline
Inculcation;
Drawing in
Innocent child Romantics
(Rousseau)
Responsibility Protection
Facilitation
Communal child African
philosophy,
Ubuntu
Social relationships,
norms and values
Socialisation by
elders
Inculcation
Fragile child Psycho-medical
scientific model
Resilience Protection
Medication
Diagnoses;
Figurations of child – in short
1. Developing child – only potential, needs maturing
2. Ignorant child – needs education (‘writing on’)
3. Evil child – needs control & correction
4. Innocent child – needs protection
5. Communal child – needs socialisation, inculcation
6. Fragile child – needs protection
Not-fully human
The Big Baby
Anthony Browne
• passive individual child
to be measured,
controlled and
compared
• incapable, passive,
invisible, vulnerable
and needy
• investment for the
future, a mini adult
• excluded
onto-epistemologically
• a lesser being &
‘listening-as-usual’
Critical ‘post’ humanism
Interdependence
between
human animals, animals
and nonhumans (e.g.
machines, paper,
concepts).
alternative to the
anthropo-centric
nature of binary thinking:
mind/body, inner/outer,
language/matter,
nature/culture, child/adult
Posthumanism
Posthumanism: alternative to the anthropocentric
nature of binary thinking: mind/body, child/adult,
language/matter, inner/outer, nature/culture…
A new ontoepistemology: enables a re-evaluation of
child as (e)mergent competent thinker and meaning
maker through material-discursive relationships.
How? By removing language as the main hub of
knowledge production and with it the ‘fully-human’
sophisticated language speaker of age as the sole
knowing subject & different view of time
Subject as iii
Posthumanism:
• rethinking of ‘human’ through
‘child’: multiple, not singular
Body not a bounded object
in space and time
Not a container of e.g.
emotions/thoughts, but a force,
Field matter is not passive, but dynamic and has agency - not
something or someone has, but an enactment
Neologism for ‘bodymindmatter’: iii – relational ontology
- a proposal to help bring about a different way of being, doing
and thinking.
- “might chafe at first, just like a new pair of shoes”
Child as iii – a matter of ontoepistemic
justice
Living without bodily ‘borders’ or ‘boundaries’ ‘the’ ‘iii’ as quantum
entanglement is not a ‘new’ unity, but it is like ‘a’ sea that as a ‘unit’
troubles the very nature of one-ness, two-ness, three-ness…the
use of the pronoun should provoke “a different sense of a-count-
ability, a different arithmetic, a different calculus of response-
ability” (Barad, 2014, p.178).
Relations are always material-discursive and constitute the
individual - not the other way round.
Not just a matter of semantics, but a matter of ethics and politics.
How can we do justice to child by using an ontology that assumes
that there are “no individual independently existing entities or
agents that pre-exist their acting upon one another”?
Entangled material-discursive
engagements of students’ bodyminds
Reflective/reflexive journaling:
Focus on the self & rational choices (collection of competencies
and skills), or
Focus on how power operates (incl emotions) on this reflexive
process and knowledge production
Diffractive journaling:
“a method of diffractively reading insights through one another,
building new insights, and attentively and carefully reading for
differences that matter in their fine details, together with the
recognition that intrinsic to this analysis is an ethics that is not
predicated on externality but rather entanglement. Diffractive
readings bring inventive provocations; they are good to think
with. They are respectful, detailed, ethical engagements”.
NRF Posthumanism Project Seminar II 'Finding Child Beyond Child' Karin Murris
Being with and as part of the
world
Aims: further disruption necessary, in particular of
1. Nature/Culture dichotomy &
2. Therefore the particular teacher/child pedagogical
relationship
3. Logic of representation &
4. Language (incl maths) as the only means of
knowledge construction
Interventions: e.g. new reading pack, workshops with
Kristy Stone, Kitamura’s picturebook Once upon an
ordinary schoolday
Philosophy with Children (P4C)
Intra-acting with IWB &
picturebook
NRF Posthumanism Project Seminar II 'Finding Child Beyond Child' Karin Murris
New reading pack & workshops
Reading pack:
Erica Burman. Beyond the Baby and the Bathwater
Ramaekers and Suissa. What all parents need to know: exploring the hidden
normativity of the language of developmental psychology.
Palmary and Mahati. Using deconstructing developmental psychology to read
child migrants to South Africa.
Taylor and Blaise. Queer-worlding childhood.
Olsson. Movement and experimentation in young children’s learning.
Taylor and Richardson. Queering Home Corner.
Workshops:
1. P4C workshop
2. Being in touch with materials
3. Hands activity
4. Clay objects intra-acting
Workshops
Students without bodily boundaries?
Diffraction = a relational
ontology – on-going process
in which meaning and matter
are co-constituted
NRF Posthumanism Project Seminar II 'Finding Child Beyond Child' Karin Murris
NRF Posthumanism Project Seminar II 'Finding Child Beyond Child' Karin Murris
NRF Posthumanism Project Seminar II 'Finding Child Beyond Child' Karin Murris
Preparing for the aquarium
outing
NRF Posthumanism Project Seminar II 'Finding Child Beyond Child' Karin Murris
‘Oceans’ DvD, OHPs & light
boxes
Assessment of the Childhood
Studies course
Final exhibition that includes a material record
of their own shifting views of child(hood):
1. Diffractive journal with augmented realities
2. Model construction of an ideal classroom
3. Art installation (e.g a construction, series of
photographs, collage, Dvd)
Registering of the differences that matter,
being accountable & response-able for the
new and a mapping of how childism is
produced.
Not ‘object-orientated-ontology’
(OOO)
What does it mean to be an object? To be an animal?
Matter (modernity): ‘simply located’, without relations, inert,
passive mechanically following Newtonian laws.
Disrupted by physics (not only quantum physics)
Whitehead ‘bifurcation of nature: humans distancing
themselves from nature: anthropocentric. Problem with the
very concept of ‘nature’.
OOO: agency to matter, but without the Subject (so humanist)
Posthuman: matter, subject, instrument that measures always
entangled in a material discursive environment
Risk of anthropomorphising?
Humanising
animals
&
things is a
potent
narrative
device for
‘paying
attention’ to
the world we
are part off
The nature of nature
Stengers: Nature is not inert - it is what we are aware
of in perception if we ‘pay full attention’
Not only humans create knowledge with a knowing
subject whose eyes represent the world, while
escaping him or her self from representation
(Haraway)
Teaching is always an entangled relationship
involving all earth dwellers: females, slaves, children,
animals, brittle stars and matter – the not ‘fully-
humans’ of humanism (Murris, 2016)
Kate’s art installation
The examiner of the course
NRF Posthumanism Project Seminar II 'Finding Child Beyond Child' Karin Murris

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NRF Posthumanism Project Seminar II 'Finding Child Beyond Child' Karin Murris

  • 1. Finding Child beyond Child: a critical posthumanist orientation to foundation phase teacher education Karin Murris and Kathryn Muller Question Mark Taken from “The Visitors Who came to Stay” Annalena McAfee/Anthony Browne
  • 2. Guiding aims of education Qualification: acquisition of knowledge, skills and dispositions Socialisation: learning to do what/as others do Subjectification: formation and transformation of the person Relational Material subjectification Reading Biesta & Barad diffractively (Murris, 2016)
  • 3. Diffraction as object and method Throwing two stones in a pond creating a diffraction pattern or ‘superposition’ (Barad 2007) Focus on difference not identity: positive difference. Forever becoming & beyond binaries. Reflection: a distance from the world incl. self. Focus on identity, and an individual ‘stepping back’. Looking for the same/similar. Popular metaphor in research and assessment Anthropomorphic ontology and epistemology Reflection misses important knowledges
  • 4. Subjectification Socialisation: becoming part of an existing order and the creation of an identity through identification with that order. Subjectification: guided by freedom and is about existence “outside” such orders. Formation and transformation of students and teachers into “subjects” coming into presence as individuals, as independent agents actively shaping society. But not in isolation!
  • 5. Relational ontology, an event Hannah Arendt’s notion of action: Each person’s ‘coming into presence’ depends on how their beginnings are taken up by others. “The way in which others take up my beginnings are radically beyond my control” (Biesta, 1994: 143). So, a subject’s coming into world is always shaped by the actions of others.
  • 6. What is the ‘superposition’? Biesta: a subject is an existential event, not an identity or essence (Biesta, 2014, p.143). Therefore, education should start “by articulating an interest in that which announces itself as a new beginning” (Biesta, 2014, p.143). Barad: meaning and matter are always ontologically entangled – against an anthropocentric epistemology = the idea that meaning making is a process between humans only
  • 7. ‘Relational material subjectification’ Biesta: agency is a human affair, so his subjectification is still humanist Barad: agency of the environment, things, materials and places in the on-going interrelations and mutual processes of transformation emerging in-between human organisms and matter and in-between different matter irrespective of human intervention (Palmer 2011) subjectification is not only discursive, but also material – the materiality of the human and nonhuman bodies involved in producing the event
  • 8. UCT PGCE FP Curriculum • Education(al Studies) 32 7 • Childhood Studies 10 7 • Life Skills 10 7 • Special Studies 10 7 • Teaching Literacy in Multilingual contexts 10 7 • Mathematics 10 7 • School Experience 32 7 • Xhosa communication (non-credit bearing) • Communication skills in English (non-credit bearing)
  • 9. The Childhood Studies course “This experientially course draws on philosophy of education to explore key issues in childhood education. The theories we will be looking at will be used to articulate justifications for certain educational practices and for most of this year we will be exploring the ‘why’ of what we do in class as teachers. Broadly speaking, the theoretical orientation of the course is critical posthumanist, or, sometimes called relational materialist. In the process of exploring the implications of posthumanism for childhood education, we will be guided by three aims of education, and touch on psychological and sociological theories of childhood, including developmental psychology and Vygotsky. Key questions are ‘What is knowledge?’, ‘What is learning?’ in the context of the core question ‘What is child?. From a multidisciplinary perspective, the course examines shifting conceptions of child and childhood and the implications for pedagogy…….”
  • 10. Figurations of child Theoretical Influences What child lacks by Nature: What Culture needs to provide Developing child Aristotle, Darwin, Piaget, Vygotsky Maturity Maturation; Guidance Ignorant child Plato, Aristotle, Locke Rationality; Experience Instruction; Training Evil child Christianity esp. Protestantism Trustworthiness, natural goodness Control, discipline Inculcation; Drawing in Innocent child Romantics (Rousseau) Responsibility Protection Facilitation Communal child African philosophy, Ubuntu Social relationships, norms and values Socialisation by elders Inculcation Fragile child Psycho-medical scientific model Resilience Protection Medication Diagnoses;
  • 11. Figurations of child – in short 1. Developing child – only potential, needs maturing 2. Ignorant child – needs education (‘writing on’) 3. Evil child – needs control & correction 4. Innocent child – needs protection 5. Communal child – needs socialisation, inculcation 6. Fragile child – needs protection
  • 12. Not-fully human The Big Baby Anthony Browne • passive individual child to be measured, controlled and compared • incapable, passive, invisible, vulnerable and needy • investment for the future, a mini adult • excluded onto-epistemologically • a lesser being & ‘listening-as-usual’
  • 13. Critical ‘post’ humanism Interdependence between human animals, animals and nonhumans (e.g. machines, paper, concepts). alternative to the anthropo-centric nature of binary thinking: mind/body, inner/outer, language/matter, nature/culture, child/adult
  • 14. Posthumanism Posthumanism: alternative to the anthropocentric nature of binary thinking: mind/body, child/adult, language/matter, inner/outer, nature/culture… A new ontoepistemology: enables a re-evaluation of child as (e)mergent competent thinker and meaning maker through material-discursive relationships. How? By removing language as the main hub of knowledge production and with it the ‘fully-human’ sophisticated language speaker of age as the sole knowing subject & different view of time
  • 15. Subject as iii Posthumanism: • rethinking of ‘human’ through ‘child’: multiple, not singular Body not a bounded object in space and time Not a container of e.g. emotions/thoughts, but a force, Field matter is not passive, but dynamic and has agency - not something or someone has, but an enactment Neologism for ‘bodymindmatter’: iii – relational ontology - a proposal to help bring about a different way of being, doing and thinking. - “might chafe at first, just like a new pair of shoes”
  • 16. Child as iii – a matter of ontoepistemic justice Living without bodily ‘borders’ or ‘boundaries’ ‘the’ ‘iii’ as quantum entanglement is not a ‘new’ unity, but it is like ‘a’ sea that as a ‘unit’ troubles the very nature of one-ness, two-ness, three-ness…the use of the pronoun should provoke “a different sense of a-count- ability, a different arithmetic, a different calculus of response- ability” (Barad, 2014, p.178). Relations are always material-discursive and constitute the individual - not the other way round. Not just a matter of semantics, but a matter of ethics and politics. How can we do justice to child by using an ontology that assumes that there are “no individual independently existing entities or agents that pre-exist their acting upon one another”?
  • 17. Entangled material-discursive engagements of students’ bodyminds Reflective/reflexive journaling: Focus on the self & rational choices (collection of competencies and skills), or Focus on how power operates (incl emotions) on this reflexive process and knowledge production Diffractive journaling: “a method of diffractively reading insights through one another, building new insights, and attentively and carefully reading for differences that matter in their fine details, together with the recognition that intrinsic to this analysis is an ethics that is not predicated on externality but rather entanglement. Diffractive readings bring inventive provocations; they are good to think with. They are respectful, detailed, ethical engagements”.
  • 19. Being with and as part of the world Aims: further disruption necessary, in particular of 1. Nature/Culture dichotomy & 2. Therefore the particular teacher/child pedagogical relationship 3. Logic of representation & 4. Language (incl maths) as the only means of knowledge construction Interventions: e.g. new reading pack, workshops with Kristy Stone, Kitamura’s picturebook Once upon an ordinary schoolday
  • 21. Intra-acting with IWB & picturebook
  • 23. New reading pack & workshops Reading pack: Erica Burman. Beyond the Baby and the Bathwater Ramaekers and Suissa. What all parents need to know: exploring the hidden normativity of the language of developmental psychology. Palmary and Mahati. Using deconstructing developmental psychology to read child migrants to South Africa. Taylor and Blaise. Queer-worlding childhood. Olsson. Movement and experimentation in young children’s learning. Taylor and Richardson. Queering Home Corner. Workshops: 1. P4C workshop 2. Being in touch with materials 3. Hands activity 4. Clay objects intra-acting
  • 25. Students without bodily boundaries? Diffraction = a relational ontology – on-going process in which meaning and matter are co-constituted
  • 29. Preparing for the aquarium outing
  • 31. ‘Oceans’ DvD, OHPs & light boxes
  • 32. Assessment of the Childhood Studies course Final exhibition that includes a material record of their own shifting views of child(hood): 1. Diffractive journal with augmented realities 2. Model construction of an ideal classroom 3. Art installation (e.g a construction, series of photographs, collage, Dvd) Registering of the differences that matter, being accountable & response-able for the new and a mapping of how childism is produced.
  • 33. Not ‘object-orientated-ontology’ (OOO) What does it mean to be an object? To be an animal? Matter (modernity): ‘simply located’, without relations, inert, passive mechanically following Newtonian laws. Disrupted by physics (not only quantum physics) Whitehead ‘bifurcation of nature: humans distancing themselves from nature: anthropocentric. Problem with the very concept of ‘nature’. OOO: agency to matter, but without the Subject (so humanist) Posthuman: matter, subject, instrument that measures always entangled in a material discursive environment
  • 34. Risk of anthropomorphising? Humanising animals & things is a potent narrative device for ‘paying attention’ to the world we are part off
  • 35. The nature of nature Stengers: Nature is not inert - it is what we are aware of in perception if we ‘pay full attention’ Not only humans create knowledge with a knowing subject whose eyes represent the world, while escaping him or her self from representation (Haraway) Teaching is always an entangled relationship involving all earth dwellers: females, slaves, children, animals, brittle stars and matter – the not ‘fully- humans’ of humanism (Murris, 2016)
  • 37. The examiner of the course