1st Edition
Agential Schooling A Posthumanist Exploration of Schools, Classrooms, and Youth Participatory Action Research with Diverse Students
By Thomas Albright
Copyright 2025
156 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
156 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Winner of the 2026 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book award, this book examines how schooling—the restrictive, oppressive, and disciplinary force in much U.S. education—is protean and has the agency to change in response to challenges. Posthumanist theories were engaged with to better understand the intra‑actions between human, nonhuman, and discursive actors.
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1. Introduction – Agential Schooling: “School is Where Dreams Come to Die” 2. Vantage High – School Agent and Classroom Freedom Dreaming 3. Killer of Dreams: When Schooling Impedes Learning 4. Spooky Entanglements: Clipboards, Write-ups, and Resignation Letters 5. Youth Participatory Action Research: Schooling, Learning, and Freedom Dreaming 6. Toward the Im/Possible – Dream Killers, Places of Possibility, and Speculative Becomings
Biography
Thomas Albright is Research Assistant Professor at Georgia State University, USA.
