Performative encounters with the TIE programme #nofilter: A study based on Finnish teenagers’ written thoughts

Abstract

This study explores Finnish teenage students’ performative encounters with a performance, a theatre in education (TIE) programme called #nofilter, concerning young people and social media. The structure of the study regarding the TIE programme is based on educational design research with iterative cycles of inquiry. Thinking with theory is used as a methodology based on Barad’s agential realism guided by the analytical question: what diffractive learning events were co-created in the TIE programme #nofilter in the intra-action with the students? The agency produced can theoretically be understood as performative learning based on the materiality of the performance, including affective and performative encounters of the students’ intra-action with the theme of the TIE programme concerning social media on the internet with an entanglement of matter and meaning. The students recognized that they need to be aware of how to handle affects and situations that could appear in the intra-actions with social media to produce knowledge and perspective in their learning events.