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Studying Teacher Education
A journal of self-study of teacher education practices
Volume 14, 2018 - Issue 2
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Thinking with Posthuman Perspectives in Self-Study Research

Pensando con perspectivas post-humanistas en la investigación con self-study

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Pages 141-155 | Received 18 Oct 2017, Accepted 25 Feb 2018, Published online: 23 Apr 2018
 

Abstract

In this study, we set out to explore processes of individual and group becomings of a self-study collective over time and distance, and with/through technology. Born out of a self-study project in one of our early doctoral courses, our self-study community has evolved over several years to one that is hybrid in nature. As we have continued our collaboration through online media, a tension arose at the juncture of our fundamentally relational work together, our need for the physical, embodied aspect of learning and self-study and the hybrid, often disembodied, experience provided by substituting online meetings for those conducted in-person. In this article we explore these tensions through pivotal moments and lines of flight in our self-study work over the past year. To frame these moments, we draw on ideas from posthumanism, which offers ways to conceptualize our collective as a multiplicity, account for the relational and material aspects of our work, address the agency of non-human actors (such as technology) in our collaboration, and consider our self-study practice a dynamic, complex, contextualized, situated phenomenon.

En este estudio nos proponemos explorar los procesos de desarrollo tanto individuales como grupales en un colectivo de self-study a través del tiempo y la distancia, con/a través del uso de tecnología. Nuestra comunidad de self-study, la que partió en uno de nuestros primeros cursos de doctorado, se ha desarrollado en los últimos años como una comunidad híbrida. A medida que continuábamos nuestra colaboración por medios tecnológicos, emergió una tensión en la frontera entre nuestro trabajo fundamentalmente relacional, nuestra necesidad del aspecto físico y encarnado del aprendizaje y el self-study, y la experiencia híbrida e incorpórea que ocurre al cambiar reuniones en persona por reuniones en un espacio virtual. En este artículo exploramos estas tensiones por medio de momentos y puntos de inflexión a lo largo de nuestro trabajo con self-study durante el año pasado. Para enmarcar estos momentos, tomamos ideas del posthumanismo, el que ofrece formas para conceptualizar nuestro colectivo en tanto multiplicidad, dar cuenta de los aspectos materiales y relacionales de nuestro trabajo, abordar la agencia de actores no humanos (como la tecnología) en nuestra colaboración, y la consideración de nuestra práctica de self-study como un fenónemo dinámic, complejo, contextualizado y situado.

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