Table 1
Glossary of key terms
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Actant |
An actant is a human or non-human involved in an activity under study |
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Agency |
Agency is the ability to act and/or exert power which is distributed across networks of people and things |
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Assemblage |
An assemblage is a complex tangle of natural, technological, human and non-human elements that come together to accomplish both intended and unintended outcomes in everyday life |
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Emergence |
The concept of emergence suggests that reality is less stable and predictable than we typically acknowledge. In this view, teaching and learning consist of both intended and unintended, predictable and unpredictable, elements. Teaching and learning are always unfolding, surfacing moment-to-moment though a series of complex negotiations between an ever-evolving assemblage of actors |
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Practices |
Practices consist of sayings, doings, and relations in everyday life. A focus on practices means moving away from a traditional concern for the individual human subject and instead attuning to activity (what concretely happens in education) and connection (relationships between people, and between people and the material elements around them) |
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Symmetry |
Symmetry is the idea that both material and immaterial, human and non-human, elements are equally important in work and learning. Non-human actors therefore require analytical attention |