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Classroom assemblage: the vibrant setting of the schooling process
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New Materialism. Vitalism. Vital Materialism. Assemblage Theory. Assemblage Ethnography. Schooling.

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LAMEU, Paula Cristina. Classroom assemblage: the vibrant setting of the schooling process. ETD - Educação Temática Digital, Campinas, SP, v. 18, n. 3, p. 580–595, 2016. DOI: 10.20396/etd.v18i3.8646053. Disponível em: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/etd/article/view/8646053. Acesso em: 6 out. 2024.

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Some scholars and researchers have been claiming we are in a New Materialist and Posthumanist era. It means that for the ones who are researching in Social Sciences, the focus is not only the human as the centre and the cause of what happens in the social realm. For human, nonhuman and inhuman are attributed the same importance in research once all of them are components of reality, inserted in nature.

Reality is regarded as complex, not simple straightforward isolated cause and effect processes. This is how the classroom is supposed to be observed in educational research: not only teaching and learning, but these two processes and policy making, and identity construction, and emotional flows, and curriculum, and schooling, and…, and…

The purpose of this paper is to reflect upon the complexity of the classroom environment regarded as an assemblage. The hypothesis is that all the components of the assemblage are equally vital, although some components are more vibratory than others. The theory of Vitalism from Driesch (1914) and the Vital Materialism from Bennett (2010a, 2010b) are used as the theoretical tools for analysis. Assemblage Ethnography (YOUDELL, 2015; YOUDELL and MCGIMPSEY, 2015) is the methodology of data collection. A multiple case study was developed in three different schools in United Kingdom: one Primary, one Secondary and one Post-secondary. The results suggest that teacher and students are the components who most influence on the classroom assemblage composition, decomposition and recomposition orienting the flows of matter-energy once they are change-creating agents.

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