In this study, I examine the pilot year of an alternative learning environment in which I, as a practitioner, explored the possibilities for transforming learning for a small class of Grade 11 and 12 students. Drawing on a pedagogy of care, a constructivist model of learning and a student-centered approach to learning, the students and I negotiated new curriculum, combining regular classroom courses with courses constructed by their own learning interests. In this case study, a rhizomatic analysis of student and practitioner data, collected both during and after students’ graduation from high school, showed that students were highly engaged with learning when guided by their personal interests. In the study, I also found, however, that students struggled to fully embrace the potential of their own interests, held back by the ambiguity of self study and the clear metrics of the regular school system to which they were accustomed. As practitioner, I struggled to meet the demands of the prescribed curriculum and those of the curriculum that constantly evolved and changed according to students’ interests. The study also speaks to the tensions in defining the role of a teacher in this alternative learning environment. In conclusion, I suggest we seek to make possible an alternative high school learning environment that more closely resembles free schooling (i.e., learn what you want, where and when you want) within a public school that would, combined with a traditional course of study, meet the provincial criteria for graduation accreditation.

In this study, I examine the pilot year of an alternative learning environment in which I, as a practitioner, explored the possibilities for transforming learning for a small class of Grade 11 and 12 students. Drawing on a pedagogy of care, a constructivist model of learning and a student-centered approach to learning, the students and I negotiated new curriculum, combining regular classroom courses with courses constructed by their own learning interests. In this case study, a rhizomatic analysis of student and practitioner data, collected both during and after students’ graduation from high school, showed that students were highly engaged with learning when guided by their personal interests. In the study, I also found, however, that students struggled to fully embrace the potential of their own interests, held back by the ambiguity of self study and the clear metrics of the regular school system to which they were accustomed. As practitioner, I struggled to meet the demands of the prescribed curriculum and those of the curriculum that constantly evolved and changed according to students’ interests. The study also speaks to the tensions in defining the role of a teacher in this alternative learning environment. In conclusion, I suggest we seek to make possible an alternative high school learning environment that more closely resembles free schooling (i.e., learn what you want, where and when you want) within a public school that would, combined with a traditional course of study, meet the provincial criteria for graduation accreditation.

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Thesis advisor: Lisa Patel Stevens / This study uses the construct of design to examine the interplay of texts, tools, and participants to ask, "How are educational environments designed and how do participants interact with designs to create spaces." I approached this question from the theoretical stance that material settings (e.g., schools, classrooms) may be designed for particular uses through institutional norms and purposeful thought (e.g., curriculum guides, technologies, architectural designs), but the way participants take up designs is not given a priori. Using ethnographic methods and spatial theories, I studied the literacy practices of a high school class designed for learning with and through multimodal textual practices, focusing on how this design of learning operated within the institutional norms of a comprehensive urban high school. Data included participant observation, qualitative interviews, and analysis of cultural artifacts, but spatial theories (de Certeau, 1984; Deleuze & Guattari, 1987; Lefebvre, 1991; Soja, 1989, 1996) and theories of design (Kress, 2003; New London Group, 1995) guided the selection and analysis of the data. Stylistically, this dissertation uses video and hyperlinks as a representational tool to illustrate the connections between conceptual fields and to illustrate how meaning is made and conveyed through the added dimensions of multimodality. The dissonance that the teacher's designs caused with the school's available designs is one of the most interesting findings. By breaking temporal and spatial boundaries of what constitutes a class, an academic discipline, and a teacher/student relationship, the teacher and the students used multimodal literacy practices in ways that offered fewer opportunities to assimilate understandings of what and how it means to learn and teach in school into available designs. The participants' interactions with the designs were mediated, however, by their cultural understandings of the purpose of school, their place in the school, and the potential of learning in school. In other words, the rules and grammars of available designs of school were co-constructive in the active designing by the participants. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2009. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Teacher Education, Special Education, Curriculum and Instruction.

This thesis focuses on beginning early childhood educators and their stories, contributing to an area in the literature that has not been researched extensively. Deleuze and Guattari’s (1987) philosophical concepts of assemblage and a rhizome underpin the methodological and theoretical threads in this study, which explores the following research questions: What are the possibilities of conversations when beginning early childhood educators get together? What conditions are needed for beginning educators to stay excited and engaged in their work? With intention to move beyond an individualistic approach of considering educators as “subjects” telling their individual stories, this study focuses on transcripts, stories, audio recordings, images, materials, the researcher’s memories and stories, related texts, and concepts as vital parts of the assemblage, directing attention to what emerges through connections between the elements. To explore the research questions, four 90-minute group conversation sessions were conducted with four early childhood educators who had been working in the field between one and two years. Collage was used as part of group conversation sessions, to pay attention to what unfolded through engaging with materials and one another. Bringing together elements of rhizomatic and narrative approaches in the data analysis highlights the importance of listening deeply, attending to one another, and developing trust to engage in genuine conversations from the heart to form caring relations, as well as directing attention to the complexities and tensions of educators’ practice. The results of the study also point in the direction of switching focus from an individualistic, fast-paced professional development approach to meaningful collective opportunities for professional learning, attending to the concept of time as relational. The study suggests creating a network of educators to continue genuine conversations and nurture connections that will help educators to stay excited and engaged in their work. / Graduate

Submitted by IGOR SANTOS (igor.ifilosofia2012@gmail.com) on 2015-06-15T19:51:30Z No. of bitstreams: 1 VERSÃO FINAL dissertação IGOR.pdf: 1020625 bytes, checksum: b51f5364008e5956b82c20a2b36daa1a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Auxiliadora da Silva Lopes (silopes@ufba.br) on 2015-08-28T14:52:29Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 VERSÃO FINAL dissertação IGOR.pdf: 1020625 bytes, checksum: b51f5364008e5956b82c20a2b36daa1a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-08-28T14:52:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 VERSÃO FINAL dissertação IGOR.pdf: 1020625 bytes, checksum: b51f5364008e5956b82c20a2b36daa1a (MD5) / O presente trabalho visou explorar as diferenças nas experiências formativas a partir da imbricação entre currículo rizomático e subjetivação. De maneira geral, busquei compreender o currículo sob a perspectiva do conceito de rizoma e suas ressonâncias na formação. Para tal empreendimento, foi preciso evocar o conceito de rizoma criado por Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari e roubado por Silvio Gallo para refletir sobre o currículo rizomático a partir de suas conexões e heterogêneses. Ademais, pretendi discutir sobre uma formação não essencialista, baseada na filosofia de Deleuze, bem como na filosofia da formação de Jorge Larrosa, inspirada em Nietzsche. Por fim, esta pesquisa visou pensar as implicações entre currículo rizomático e formação, a partir do dispositivo conceitual atos de currículo forjado por Roberto Sidnei Macedo. Destacam-se as potencialidades do currículo a partir dos princípios do rizoma e uma formação tratada através das experiências, do aprendizado, de uma perspectiva não humanista e da diferença insubmissa à identidade. As possibilidades entre currículo e formação foram auxiliadas pelas ideias de devir-menor e nomadologia na educação. A pesquisa insere-se no campo teórico da filosofia do currículo e da formação e tem como concepção metodológica os traçados cartográficos, considerando a processualidade do objeto de estudo, assim como relevando as intempestividades na experiência de escrita. A partir de tais problematizações, emergiu o conceito de atos de currículo rizomáticos para entretecer o currículo rizomático e a subjetivação, assim como resistir aos modelos curriculares-formativos. / ABSTRACT The current work aimed to explore the differences in formative experiencies from the overlap between rhizomatic curriculum and the subjectivity. In general, I tried to understand the curriculum from the perspective of the concept of rhizome and its resonances in formation. For such undertaking it was necessary to evoque the concept of rhizome created by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and stolen by Silvio Gallo to reflect on the rhizomatic curriculum from their connections and heterogeneity. Moreover, I intended to discuss a non-essentialist formation based on Deleuze‘s philosophy and the philosophy of formation by Jorge Larrosa, inspired by Nietzsche. Finally, this research tried to think about the implication of rhizomatic curriculum and the formation from the conceptual device acts of curriculum forged by Roberto Sidnei Macedo. Stand out the potentialities of curriculum from the principles of rhizome and a formation through the experiences of learning, non-humanist perspective and an unyielding diference to identity. The linkage made between curriculum and formation was aided by the ideas of becoming-minor and nomadology in education. The research is part of the theorical field of philosophy of curriculum and philosophy of formation and its methodologic design the cartographic layouts, considering the processuality of the object of study as well as highlighting the unexpected experience of writing. From these problematizations, emerged the concept of acts of rhizomatic curriculum to interweave the rhizomatic curriculum and subjetivity, as well as to resist the formative curricular models.

Kandidatarbete inom medieteknik med målsättning att förbättra det befintliga begreppet Community utveckling. Detta kandidatarbete visar hur definitionen av Community utvecklats och förändrats med hjälp av modern teknik. Det är inte alltid positiv med nya definitioner. Nya problem uppstår inom communities med management, etikfrågor och underhåll. Detta Kandidatarbetet analyserar dessa problem och strävar efter att lösa dem i en modern standard, med hjälp av rhizomatic och participatory design. Eftersom Community rör sig mot online definitionen, så användes de senaste verktygen som finns tillgängliga inom webbteknik, till att bygga en produkt som använder sig av situated kunskap som ledord och kombinerar participatory design och rhizomatic. Detta för att lösa de pågående problemen som online-Communities stöter på gällande underhållsmässighet och etik. / Bachelors level thesis in Media Technology that aims to improve an existing concept of community development. The thesis shows how the definition of Community has advanced and changed its meanings with the help of modern technology. It is not always positive with new definitions. New problems arise within the community regarding management, ethics, and maintenance. This thesis analyses these problems and aim to solve them in a modern standard, with help of rhizomatic and participatory design. With the community shifting towards an online definition, the thesis uses the latest tools available in web technology, to build a product that uses situated knowledge as a mindset and combines participatory design and rhizomatic. This to solve the ongoing problems that online communities face with maintainability and ethics.

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This bachelor thesis will explore the possibilities in which game creators will be able to expand and enlarge their digital world and give the players the illusion that there is more to it than just the realm of the playable main character. This will be done through the usage of rhizomatic connections, ubuntu philosophy, multiple stories, and mystique. We hope that these keywords will hold the key to making a more interesting world for video games in which the world will seem wide, exiting and with a rich history similar to how the real world appears. We live life as one character but we know that there is more to the world than just ourselves and the environment we live our daily lives in. / Detta kandidatarbete kommer att utforska möjligheter till hur spelskapare ska kunna göra för att expandera, utveckla, och förstora sina digitala världar för att ge spelarna en illusion av att det finns mer till den digitala världen än endast huvudkaraktären och den del av världen där spelets historia utspelar sig. Vi vill utforska detta genom rhizomatiska kopplingar, ubuntu filosofi, multipla historier, och mystik. Vi hoppas på att dessa nyckelord ska erhålla nyckeln till att skapa mer intressanta världar för videospel där världen verkar vid och spännande, samt tronar på en rik och händelsefull historia likt hur vi ser den verkliga fysiska världen. Vi lever som en karaktär, ofta i en liten del av världen men vi vet att det finns mer där ute än endast våra egna liv och de platser där detta liv utspelar sig.

The Rhizo-narrative är en undersökning som handlar om att kombinera rhizomatik med narrativa strukturer inom datorspel. Vi vill veta hur rhizomatik som verktyg för narrativ påverkar datorspel. Detta uppnår vi genom lekfulla experiment och koncept. Denna text går igenom vårt syfte med arbetet, varför vi har valt att jobba med dessa begrepp, hur vi jobbar med dessa begrepp och vilka resultat vi har fått av arbetet samt en utförlig diskussion kring våra resultat, problem och framtida tankar kring rhizmatiska narrativ för datorspel. / The Rhizo-narrative is an investigation about what happens when you combine rhizomes with video game narrative structures that researches and documents the process. We want to know how rhizomes affects video game narratives when used as a tool for developing the narrative itself. We achieve this through creative experiments and concepts.   Within this text we go through the purpose of our project, why we chose to work with the terms we worked with, what those terms mean, the results we achieved as well as a detailed discussion about said results, problems and challenges we faced during the projects lifetime. We end with our future thoughts about rhizome based narratives within video games.