Deweyan Transactionalism in Education: Beyond Self-action and Inter-action

273 Pages·2022·4.493 MB·English

by  Jim Garrison, Johan Öhman, Leif Östman

Deweyan Transactionalism
in Education
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Deweyan Transactionalism
in Education
Beyond Self-action and Inter-action
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Jim Garrison, Johan Öhman and Leif Östman
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
List of Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xiv
1 Introduction Jim Garrison, Johan Öhman and Leif Östman 1
2 Philosophers’ Problems: Transaction in Philosophy and Life
Frank X. Ryan 17
3 Transactional Perspectivalism: The Emergence of Language,
Minds, Selves, and Temporal Sequences Jim Garrison 39
4 Transactional Systems of Exploration and Learning
William J. Clancey 51
5 Democracy, Education, and Transaction: The Importance of
Play in Dewey’s Thought Andrea Fiore 75
6 Applications of Transactional Methodologies for Analysis of
Teaching and Learning Processes Pernilla Andersson
and Johan Öhman 87
7 Analyzing Teachers’ Functional Coordination of Teaching Habits
in the Encounter with Policy Reforms Malena Lidar and
Eva Lundqvist 99
8 Learning through Encounters with the Physical Environment
Susanne Klaar and Johan Öhman 111
9 The Dramaturgy of Facilitating Learning Processes: A Transactional
Theory and Analytical Approach Katrien Van Poeck and
Leif Östman 123
10 Transactants in Action—Examples from a Craft Remake
School Project Hanna Hofverberg 137
11 Sensing Together: Transaction in Handicraft Education
Jonas Risberg and Joacim Andersson 149
12 The Museum as Exploration Petra Hansson and Johan Öhman 165
13 Aesthetic Experiences and Artistic Creation: A Transactional
Analysis of Learning in Computer Programming
Michael Håkansson, Lennart Rolandsson and Leif Östman 179
vi Contents
14 A Transactional Perspective on Ethics and Morals Louise Sund
and Johan Öhman 193
15 Transactional Analyses of the Entanglement of the Aesthetical,
Moral and Political in Learning Processes Michael Håkansson
and Leif Östman 207
16 Links between Pandemics, Politics, and People
Ninitha Maivorsdotter and Joacim Andersson 221
Notes 233
References 236
Index 250
Illustrations
Figures
2.1 The Containment Predicament 18
2.2 Mind-Dependence and Mind-Independence 19
2.3 Mind-Dependence 20
2.4 The Circuit Inquiry 22
2.5 Containment within Inference 24
2.6 Existence and Experience in Interactional and Transactional
Pragmatism 31
2.7 The Reciprocity of “How” and “What” 35
4.1 Okeanos exploration system—telepresence-enabled ocean
exploration 53
4.2 Examples of images publicly available during a dive, illustrating
(clockwise from upper left) varied geology, control room onboard
Okeanos Explorer, animal life, and using temperature probe with
ROV robotic arm 54
4.3 Okeanos exploration system dependent hierarchy 57
4.4 Okeanos Explorer Control Room, showing morning deployment of
Seirios (top middle), ROV (top right), inset of Bridge Deck Officer
(top left), ROV engineers, and scientists sitting in the back 61
4.5 Lines of communication during a dive 62
4.6 Robotically mediated work system design 64
4.7 Imaginary oppositions shown as dependent hierarchies, most
generally showing a designed or natural system/organism in an
environment. (Concept adapted from Wilden, 1987: 82) 69
4.8 Broader view of the dependent hierarchy of the Okeanos
exploration system 71
12.1 Whipped Peter 172
12.2 Black Students Integrate Little Rock’s Central High School 174
13.1 The trajectory of learning with four phases 181
14.1 The circle of moral doubt-belief (adapted from Ryan 2011: 21) 201
viii Illustrations
Table
15.1 A Model of Transactional Learning Moral and Political
Concerns for 209
Contributors
Joacim Andersson is Senior Lecturer in Sport Sciences at Malmö University,
Sweden. Andersson seeks to clarify philosophical and sociological concepts in
order to empirically explore transactional specificities of embodied learning. He
has pioneered the development of important methodological and theoretical
innovations in the research group SMED (Studies of Meaning-Making in
Educational Discourses). He is the lead author of two book chapters on the
topic of transactional and artistic learning in the book Learning Movements:
New Perspectives of Movement Education (2020). His publications have recently
appeared in Qualitative Health Research, Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy,
and Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health.
Pernilla Andersson is Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences Education at
Stockholm University, Sweden, and Researcher in Educational Sciences at
Uppsala University, Sweden, where she focuses on sustainability, economic,
and social sciences education. She is a member of the research environment
SMED and has used a transactional methodology in combination with “logics
of critical explanation” for studies of teaching and learning processes. Her
most recent publication is a book chapter entitled “Embodied Experiences of
‘Decision-Making’ in the Face of Uncertain and Complex Sustainability Issues”
in Sustainable Development Teaching: Ethical and Political Challenges (eds. Van
Poeck, Östman and Öhman, 2019).
Michael Håkansson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education at
Stockholm University, Sweden. His research explores how political conflicts can
be educative in teaching activities such as citizenship education and education for
sustainable development. Among his recent publications are Wildemeersch, D.,
Læssøe, J. and Håkansson, M. (2021), “Young Sustainability Activists as Public
Educators: An Aesthetic Approach,” European Educational Research Journal,
and Håkansson. M & Östman, L (2019), “The Political Dimension in ESE: The
Construction of a Political Moment Model for Analyzing Bodily Anchored
Political Emotions in Teaching and Learning of the Political Dimension,”
Environmental Education Research, 25:4, 585–600.