Understanding how a learning phenomenon in which children were visually documenting their learning processes matters and intra-acts with the spaces of the school

Abstract

This paper introduces the idea of learning phenomena based on Barad’s onto-epistemology and her understanding of reality as an entanglement of phenomena. To do so, it is presented one of the different learning phenomena occurred during a research with 10- to 11-year-old students about possibilities, engagements, and movements of visual documentation and learning in primary classrooms. During a part of the research, I was visually documenting how children were visually documenting their learning processes. The learning phenomenon presented here occurred during this part of the research. What follows is an unfolding of this learning phenomenon in different dimensions through dialoguing with Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts and new materialism theories. In this way, the paper moves towards concepts like intra-active pedagogy, researching and learning in the making, embodied learning and in which way agencies of observation matter in educational practices.

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Funding

This work was supported by: European Commission. Lifelong Learning Programme; and the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency. 543177-LLP-1-2013-1-ES-KA3MP. [Disclaimer: This article reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any information contained therein].Programme of grants for the Training of University Teachers of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, FPU13/03637.ESBRINA Research Group - Contemporary Subjectivities, Visualities and Educational Environments (2014SGR 00632).

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Judit Onsès

Judit Onsès has a degree in Fine Arts (2013), master in ‘Visual Arts and Education: a Constructionist Approach’ (2014) and PhD in Arts and Education (2018, International Mention). PhD research was linked to the European project Do It Yourself in Education: Expanding Digital Competence To Foster Student Agency And Collaborative Learning (DIYLab 543177-LLP-1-2013-1-ES- KA3MP) and focused in primary school students when documenting visually their learning practices.

She is currently a post-doctoral researcher and associate professor in the Faculty of Education and in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. Member of the research group ESBRINA - Contemporary Subjectivities, Visualities and Educational Environments (2017SGR 1248) and REUNI+D – University Network for Educational Research and Innovation. Social Change and Challenges for Education in the Digital Age (EDU2015-68718-REDT). Her research interest relates to post-qualitative and new materialism theories in art-based-research, cartographies in education and visual documentation of learning processes. Since January 2019 she is involved in European Project Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming Europe (MiCREATE_2019-2021 - Horizon 2020) and combines teaching and research with educational-artistic projects with communities.