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Materiality and Subjectivity

Life Stories of Desks

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School children and their desks enter into sustained relationships from the moment they connect. No longer restricted only to the teacher or the learner, pedagogical interest has been increasingly turning to the materiality of schooling (Fenwick & Landri, 2012; O’Donoghue, 2010; Rasmussen, 2012; Roehl, 2012; Taylor, 2013). The situatedness of material objects is a dialectic of performative agency. As such, the school desk stands as an innocuous and often taken-for-granted familiarity.

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  1. Cecile Badenhorst
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Badenhorst, C., Young, A., Xu, X., Mcleod, H. (2017). Materiality and Subjectivity. In: Lyle, E. (eds) At the Intersection of Selves and Subject. Bold Visions in Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-113-1_4

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