Full Description
This book explores the impact of sensation, affect, ethics, and place on literacy learning from early childhood through to adult education. Chapters bridge the divide between theory and practice to consider how contemporary teaching and learning can promote posthuman values and perspectives.
By offering a posthuman approach to literacy research and pedagogy, Affect, Embodiment, and Place in Critical Literacy re-works the theory-practice divide in literacy education, to emphasize the ways in which learning is an affective and embodied process merging in a particular environment. Written by literacy educators and international literacy researchers, this volume is divided into four sections focussing on: Moving with sensation and affect; becoming worldmakers with ethics and difference; relationships that matter in curriculum and place; before drawing together everything in a concise conclusion.
Affect, Embodiment, and Place in Critical Literacy is the perfect resource for researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of literacy education and philosophy of education, as well as those seeking to explore the benefits of a posthumanism approach when conceptualising theory and practice in literacy education.
Contents
Foreword—The Gradual Instant
Dennis Sumara
Preface
Mairi McDermott & Kim Lenters [University of Calgary]
Introducing Affect, Embodiment and Place in Critical Literacy
Kim Lenters & Mairi McDermott
ORIENTING MAP I
Mapping Posthuman Concepts
Kim Lenters & Mairi McDermott
PLATEAU I
Moving with Sensation and Affect
Kim Lenters & Mairi McDermott
Listening to Junk: Sensorial Assemblages and Community Engagement
Stephanie Bartlett [Calgary Board of Education] & Robert LeBlanc [University of Lethbridge]
How Minor Gestures Generate Relational Transformations in the Act of Literacy Teaching and Learning
Christian Ehret [McGill University] & Rachel MacDonald [Calgary Board of Education]
Experimentations in Affective Reading for Adult Language Classrooms
Monica Waterhouse [Laval University] & Anita Chaudhuri [Mount Royal University]
Planning-as-Burden, Planning-as-Gift: Shifting to Gift-Economy Approaches to Teaching and Learning
Jennifer MacDonald [University of Calgary] & Kevin Leander [Vanderbildt University]
ORIENTING MAP II
Opening Minds, Eyes, Ears and Doors: Emergent Learning Opportunities for Literacy Educators Weaving Theory in Everyday Classrooms
Barbara Comber [University of South Australia]
PLATEAU II
Becoming Worldmakers with Ethics and Difference
Mairi McDermott & Kim Lenters
What Nose Hill Taught Us About Boundary-Making, Boundary-Knowing, and Boundary-Becoming
Jaye Johnson Thiel [University of Georgia] & Melody Pelling [Calgary Board of Education]
The Literacy is in the Listening: Honouring Multiplicity and Interrelatedness as Early Grade Teachers
Maren Aukerman [University of Calgary] & Krista Jensen [Calgary Board of Education]
On Being Thrown Together: Living and Learning in Diversity
Guy Merchant [Sheffield Hallam University] & Divya Davender-Kraft [Calgary Board of Education]
(9) Classroom Cosmopolitics: World-building for Mutual Flourishing
T. Phillip Nichols [Baylor University] & Brianne O'Sullivan [Calgary Board of Education]
(10) Ways of Being and Becoming in the Adolescent Classroom: An Invitation to Consider the Possibilities of Throwntogetherness
Erin Spring [University of Calgary] & Amanda Huddleston [Calgary Board of Education]
ORIENTING MAP III
Knowing/Be(com)ing/Doing Literacies: (Re)Thinking Theory-Practice with a Personal Narrative Game Board
Candace R. Kuby [University of Missouri]
PLATEAU III
Relationships That Matter in Curriculum and Place
Mairi McDermott & Kim Lenters
Walking Together in and Through Stories
Pam Whitty [University of New Brunswick] & Heather McKay [Calgary Board of Education]
Wibbly-Wobbly-Timey-Wimey: Place-based Pedagogy Across Time and Space
Megan Hirst [Calgary Board of Education] & Cathy Burnett [Sheffield Hallam University]
Red Dresses and Sequined Bras: Encountering Materiality, Place, and Affect in Pop-Up Installation Pedagogy
Michelle A. Honeyford [University of Manitoba] & Patti Trussler [Calgary Board of Education]
Relationship Matters in Adult Education: The Practice of Literacies In-Between
Mia Perry [Glasgow University] & Keith Seel [Bow Valley College]
PLATEAU IV
(In)Conclusions
Mairi McDermott & Kim Lenters
Traveler Review I: Space Matters: How a Change in Space can Influence Learning
Miriam Ramzy [University of Calgary]
Traveler Review II: Used Once and Disposed: Collaborating with Youth Environmental Activists in Posthuman Times
Gina Ko [University of Calgary]
ORIENTING MAP IV:
Why theory? Thinking, Being, Doing Literacy with Posthumanism
Kim Lenters & Mairi McDermott
