Ansatser til en agential realistisk tænkning om læring

Abstract

This article explores what can be understood by learning based on agential realist thinking. An agential realist thinking about learning is sensitive to the complexity that characterizes learning as a phenomenon. Thus, learning from an agential realist perspective is a dynamic and emergent phenomenon characterized by constantly being in processes of becoming and by expanding the range of components involved in the constitutive processes thereto. This article focuses on material-discursivity, spatiality, and temporality. Furthermore, concepts like acquisition and transfer are revisited in the article and it is argued – via an excerpt from a field note – that intra-activity and “leaps” are characteristics of learning. Re-configurations are pivotal for this thinking about learning and the concept of re-configurations breaks the tendency to understand learning as either more of the same or a radical change in the sense of “penny dropped”. For although learn- ing processes that are not recognized as “aha moments” do not call much attention to them- selves, this is how they occur most often.