1st Edition

Affect in Literacy Learning and Teaching Pedagogies, Politics and Coming to Know

Edited By Kevin Leander, Christian Ehret Copyright 2019
    252 Pages
    by Routledge

    252 Pages
    by Routledge

    In this cutting-edge volume, scholars from around the world connect affect theory to the field of literacy studies and unpack the role and influence of this emerging area of scholarship on literacy education. Offering an introduction to affect theory and scholarship as it relates to literacy studies, contributors discuss the role of humanizing and dehumanizing influences on schooling and examine the emotional and affective dimensions at individual and communal levels. Arguing that an affective turn requires a radical rethinking of the nature of literacy, these chapters address the impact and import of emotion and affect on reading, writing and calling to action. Grounded in trailblazing research, the contributors push the boundaries of academic writing and model how theoretically-driven writing about affect must itself be moving and expressive.

    Part 1: Pedagogies

    Movement 1. Pedagogy under the Waterline of Perceived Value

    Chapter 1. Affective Flows in the Clinic and the Classroom

    Gail Boldt

    Chapter 2. Propositions for a Radical Pedagogy, or How to Rethink Value

    Erin Manning

    Chapter 3. Charlene’s Puppies: Embarrassing Obsessions or Vibrant Matter Entangled in Ethical Literacies?

    Kimberly Lenters

    Part 2: Politics

    Movement 2. Uninterpretable Politics in Literacy Research and Practice

    Chapter 4. Visceral Literacies, Political Intensities: Affect as Critical Potential in Literacy Research and Practice

    Elizabeth Dutro

    Chapter 5. Assembling Desire, Love, and Affect in an Art Museum School

    Jonathan Eakle and Tatiana I. Sanguinette

    Chapter 6. ‘It’s something that requires passion’: After-echoes of the Ethnic Studies Ban

    Alyssa D. Niccolini

    Chapter 7. Thinking and feeling the interval: A few movements of a ‘transnational’ family

    Ana Christina da Silva and Kevin Leander

    Part 3: Coming to Know

    Movement 3. Affectively Charged Foldings of Literacy and Coming to Know

    Chapter 8. Why a More Human Literacy Studies must be Posthuman: Encountering Writing During and after the Holocaust

    Christian Ehret and Daniella D’Amico

    Chapter 9. Affective Sketches: Writing, Drawing, and Living with Analysis

    Ty Hollett and Jaclyn Dudek

    Chapter 10. Coded to Smithereens and Danced to Abstraction: Forms of Affect in the Industry of Research

    Mia Perry

    Chapter 11. Telling Stories Out of Class: Three Movements in a Reach for Affect

    Cathy Burnett

    Afterword

    Michalinos Zembylas

     

    Biography

    Kevin M. Leander is Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt University, USA.

    Christian Ehret is Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University, Canada.