‘It’s not cardboard, it’s a house’: cartographies of agentic assemblage in the early childhood classroom
José J. Roa-Trejo,
Alejandra Pacheco-Costa,
Fernando Guzmán-Simón
Abstract:The concept of assemblage, drawing on the posthuman theorisations of Deleuze and Guattari, delineates a dynamic and new materialist approach to an event. In this approach, desires, material agency and (de)(re)territorialisation emerge as key concepts, and open ways to understand the school classroom in early childhood as a territory where lines of flight challenge the boundaries of normative education. This paper focuses on a classroom assemblage and aims to cartography the material relations between human and… Show more
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