How is relational agency implicated in everyday teaching and learning practices?
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How is relational agency implicated in everyday teaching and learning practices?Taking up ideas of relational agency as situated in Karen Barad’s (2007) ethico-onto-epistemologies, object and subject are mutually constituted, relationally distinct, and not existing as separate individual elements. While this (re)orientation of binary logics also applies to theory/practice relationships, illuminating the implications of relational agency for everyday teaching and learning practices is important for acting with/in these Anthropocene times. One salient point of interest pertains to the idea that if it is impossible to extricate oneself from the situated world that we are co-constituting, then we are responsible and accountable to the kinds of worlds we are co-constituting. This provides the conditions of possibility to challenge a discreet and separate ‘nature out there’ requiring our conservation efforts through environmental stewardship, to cultivate affirmative and sustainable relationships with ‘Other(s)’ in every given moment and in every given context.
References
Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Durham, USA and London, UK: Duke University Press.