Karen Barad as Educator

Dr Karin Murris is Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Oulu and Emerita Professor of Philosophy and Pedagogy at the University of Cape Town. She is a teacher educator. Grounded in academic philosophy and a post qualitative research paradigm, her main research interests are in philosophy of education, early child/hood studies, ethics, children’s literature, and digital play. Amsterdam-born but having mostly lived and worked in the UK and Africa, her special expertise is researching early childhood, primary and teacher education in South Africa, and more recently, Finland. Karin is currently the principal investigator of various projects in South Africa, including Responsible Innovation in Technology for Children (2022-23), The Post-Qualitative Research in Higher Education Collective (2021-2023), Children, Technology and Play (2019-2020) and Decolonising Early Childhood: Critical Posthumanism in Higher Education (2016-2019). She is Chief Editor of the Routledge Postqualitative, New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Research series and section editor of the new Routledge Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods. Karin is also an Invited member of the Advisory Board & Steering committee of the Childism Institute.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Troubling the troubled Subject.- Chapter 2. Meeting Karen Barad: An Agential Realist Life.- Chapter 3. Agential Realism and Response-able Education Science.- Chapter 4. Diffraction as Childlike Methodology in Education.