학교민주주의의 재개념화를 위한 시론: 신유물론 관점에 입각한 성원권 확장을 중심으로

Abstract

This study aimed to explore what insights new materialism might provide for advancing the discussion on school democracy with a specific focus on the issue of extending membership to nonhuman beings. It reviews the literature that sought to move away from a minimalist approach to school democracy and confirms that schools could be a place for experimentation and imagination for a new democracy. Then, it discusses what it might mean to extend the membership of school democracy to nonhuman beings through a theoretical framework informed by new materialism as follows. First, extending the membership of school democracy to nonhuman beings requires an onto-epistemological turn. Second, it shifts democratic subjectivity from something fixed to something created “through” actions performed in a specific context. Last, it is critical to cultivate response-ability in order to practice school democracy based on this onto-epistemology. Based on these discussions, this study re-conceptualizes school democracy as a space-time in which all school members, including nonhuman beings, renew their subjectivity as a democratic citizen by attending and responding to each other with a sense of entanglemt.