ABSTRACT

The terms posthuman and posthumanism have caused quite a stir in academia. The posthumanist learning theory proposes denotes a process where materials come to align our collective memories and motives, which again inform our embodied perceptions of materials within a phenomenal world. Posthumanist learning challenges the humanist understanding of the autonomous being found universally to be the same and the idea that all humans effortlessly can self-direct their own learning without considering how matter and collectives matters. Some posthumanist learning theorists simply solve the problem by getting rid of the concept of learning. Sensory awareness and meaningful perception go together with the cultural learning of concepts. Posthuman theories make us question the humanist paradigm of individuals and the question whether each and every human constructs and experiences a completely separate material world. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.