New Materialist Explorations into Language Education

Johanna Ennser-Kananen is Associate Professor of English and Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. Her work focuses on linguistically, culturally, and epistemically just education and teacher education, particularly as it pertains to the deconstruction of normative whiteness, the experience of students with refugee backgrounds, and the professional legitimacy of teachers from underrepresented groups. She is interested in New Materialism and Posthumanism, especially in so far as they intersect with critical, anticolonial and sociocultural theories.  Taina Saarinen is Research Professor of Higher Education at the Finnish Institute of Educational research, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Recently, she has focused especially on language policies and new nationalism in higher education, with a cross cutting interest on historical and political layeredness of language policies.

• Introduction.- 1. Towards Socio-Material Research Approaches in Language Education.- Part I. Material Agency.- 2. Telepresent Agency: Remote Participation in Hybrid Language Classrooms via a Telepresence Robot.- 3. Changes in Language Assessment Through the Lens of New Materialism.- 4. “I Have Karelia in my Soul” – Intra-Action of Students, Seniors and Artefacts in a Community-Engaged Service-Learning Collaboration.- Part II. Spatial and Embodied Materiality.- 5. The Personal Repertoire and its Materiality: Resources, Means and Modalities of Languaging.- 6. Material Change: The Case of Co-Located Schools.- 7. The Socio-Material Value of Language Choices in Mozambique and Finland.- Part III. Assemblages of Human and Non-human.- 8. Rhizoanalysis of Sociomaterial Entanglements in Teacher Interviews.- 9. The Ideal Learner as Envisioned by Can Do Statements and Grammar Revisions: How Textbook Agency is Constructed.- Epilogue.- 10. A Diffractive Reading.- Index.