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Educational Change, The Agency Of The Educator And Heterogeneous Assemblages, Dirk Postma

Dirk Postma

The article queries the possibility and nature of human agency in educational change by developing a position between the modernistic centred agent and the postmodern disappearance of the agent and by locating agency in heterogeneous assemblages. It investigates how the educator could fulfil his/her agential role to ensure worthwhile educational outcomes. It draws on theories of sociomateriality in its symmetrical investigation of human and nonhuman agency and the heterogeneity of practices. Since reality is continually being performed (and not just reproduced) through heterogeneous practices, educators have to be able to evaluate actual and emergent outcomes, imagine possible realities and contribute …