ABSTRACT
The environment, learning spaces, and materials students use and engage with influence their learning. Just as our bodies and brains work together to learn, our bodies and the non-human materials around us also influence our learning, including the space we occupy. Posthumanism would explain that there are multiple external factors that influence the learning at any given moment. Biological, physical, environmental, cultural, institutional, and even the materials are some of the dimensions that influence student learning constantly; “all of these work together in a contingent interplay to produce any literacy event”. As teachers, it is their responsibility to consider how changes in space, and changes in any non-human element, can influence learning. Students negotiate their learning in light of these factors and in response to them. In the classrooms, and as teachers, there are so many factors one need to be constantly monitoring, facilitating, changing, and attending to, so it can be easy to get lost in it all.
