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[5O3-IS-5b-03]Reworking Communities of Practice through Posthumanism: AI as a Peer Collaborator
〇Hiroko Ueda1 (1. Kobe Univerisity)
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Community of Practice、posthumanism、human-AI collaboration、intelligent learning aid、techno-animism
Generative artificial intelligence is increasingly integrated into learning environments, yet educational research often continues to treat AI as a supportive tool rather than a collaborative participant. This presentation examines how collaborative learning can be re-conceptualized when learners experience AI as a peer within group activity, proposing a posthumanist extension of Wenger’s Communities of Practice accounting for nonhuman agency.The theoretical argument is informed by empirical insights from a mixed-methods questionnaire study in a Japanese educational context. Quantitative and qualitative data were examined through abductive analysis to explore how learners interpreted AI participation in collaborative practice. The findings suggest that AI-mediated interaction supported engagement and coordination toward shared goals, while also revealing moments in which emotional coordination was constrained. In Japan’s techno-animistic context, AI enables ethical coexistence without erasing human-machine boundaries, reframing Wenger’s concepts as relational outcomes of human-AI assemblages. This presentation advances discussions of distributed, more-than-human learning by theoretically reworking Communities of Practice and emphasizing educators’ ethical mediation in human–AI collaboration.