Flowing magma bodies: towards a relational understanding of imaginative pedagogical possibilities

Abstract

To contribute pedagogies that reimagine relationships in a more-than-human world I adopt a posthuman approach to map the content and expressions of imagination in a series of pedagogical events on Dja Dja Wurrung Country, Kooyoora, Australia. By working with Bennett’s concept of vibrant matter and MacLure’s generative data fragments I attend to the collective – student/teacher bodies, geological landscape, embodied actions, histories, passions and reactions – to interrogate pedagogical assemblages of an imaginative geological walk. In doing so, I explore what holds these assemblages together and what breaks them apart and follow the generative onto-epistemological forces at play. I do so with a posthuman lens to remain open to the possibilities of learning from, with, and in these educational entanglements.

Keywords:

• Posthuman
• imagination
• pedagogy
• vibrant matter
• data fragments
• outdoor environmental education

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest.

Additional information

Funding

Education Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend.

Notes on contributors

Philippa Morse

Philippa Morse is a Lecturer in Outdoor and Environmental Education, at La Trobe University, Bendigo, Australia and PhD candidate at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Philippa’s teaching and research focus is on imagination and posthuman pedagogical approaches in outdoor and environmental education.