“Teksten bryder frem”: tekst-som-begivenhed i danskfaget

The purpose of the article is to nuance the teaching of Danish as subject (and in a Nordic perspective, L1) as a text-based subject, in a posthuman research approach. This is done by examining text-as-event in the teaching of Danish as subject in Danish primary school; how texts do and happen as events in the classroom. The article sheds light on how texts touch, move and overflow students and teachers in special affective encounters in virtual spaces, which we conceptualize as text-as-event. We do this using video data framed as narrative vignettes obtained from classroom teaching in a grade 1 class through the interpretation of picture books with process drama, as well as two grade 6 students’ group work on a fashion magazine. With inspiration mainly from Gilles Deleuze’s theory of affect (Deleuze, 1986, 1988; Deleuze & Guattari, 1994, 2004), we examine students’ and teachers’ work with text-as-event as a movement between texts and affect by making visible sensory, relational and material aspects of the becoming of texts. The article’s central finding is the encirclement of a text didactic of unpredictability; how texts in the Danish and L1 subjects do and happen as unpredictable events that open up new understandings of the ‘world’. Thus, the point is about controlling less; being instead turned and tuned towards the unpredictable, the virtual and the aesthetic.