Conclusion: Heeding enchantments and disconnecting dots—a sociomaterialist pedagogy of things

Abstract

In “Heeding Enchantments and Disconnecting Dots,” Greer creates a theoretically and experientially informed understanding of learning processes that incorporate mobile and social media. Conversation, with MonCoin educators and researchers, is a method here for reading sociomaterialist educational theory and teaching experiences through each other. The work of political theorist Jane Bennett (2010) and sociologist Bruno Latour (We Have Never Been Modern. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1991; Pandora’s Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999; How to Better Register the Agency of Things: Semiotics, 2014; On Not Joining the Dots: Radcliffe Institute, 2016), along with the previous scholarship of MonCoin’s principle investigator Juan Carlos Castro (Stud Art Educ 53:152–169, 2012; Trends, J Tex Art Educ Assoc 2013:87–92, 2013; Educational, Psychological, and Behavioral Considerations in Niche Online Communities. IGI Global, Hershey, PA, 2014; Int J Educ & Arts 16, 2015), creates the scaffolding for this discussion. These sociomaterialist theories inform dialogue with the art educators of MonCoin, enabling the description of a pedagogy of things. The ways of teaching described here focus on transformative possibilities that arise when educators, learners, and the material world encounter each other.