For our second session, Michalis Kontopodis and Kristiina Kumplulainen’s chapter "Researching Young Children’s Engagement and Learning in Makerspaces: Insights from Post-Vygotskian and Post-Human Perspectives" from the edited volume Enhancing Digital Literacy and Creativity: Makerspaces in the Early Years (Routledge, 2020) will be the center of attention. The chapter draws on a vignette of a 5-year-old wearing a VR headset. The vignette is discussed from two theoretical perspectives (post-Vygostkyan and post-human) that together, according to the authors, can "guide our empirical research on makerspaces in several worthwhile ways, helping us understand maker activities and makerspaces as dynamic and complex social, cultural and material practices, situated across space and time" (p. 20).
Post-Human Reading Group - Researching Young Children’s Engagement and Learning in Makerspaces: Insights from Post-Vygotskian and Post-Human Perspectives
Post-Human Reading Group is a new monthly event, organized by LiDA. We will read papers, articles and chapters situated in the post-human tradition, and, inspired by these approaches, we will be discussing new ways materiality can be accounted for in educational research.
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Published Mar. 1, 2020 10:37 PM
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