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Mapping Learning Ecologies: A Diffractive Exploration Of The Emergence Of Learning, Laurie Hurson
Mapping Learning Ecologies: A Diffractive Exploration Of The Emergence Of Learning, Laurie Hurson
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In this dissertation, drawing on Karen Barad’s theory of agential realism (2007), I explore the learning ecology as a “specific material configuration” that produces learning, an emergent, “onto-epistemological” phenomenon of entangled being-knowing. I offer a new materialist approach to the learning ecology to better define the concept, taking seriously the material nature of the ecology and acknowledging that learning and knowing is a material practice of being in the world.
To explore learning ecologies, I conducted qualitative interview and mapping sessions with 26 undergraduate students at the City University of New York. To analyze the narrative and visual data, I …