1st Edition
Affect, Embodiment, and Place in Critical Literacy Assembling Theory and Practice
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Foreword—The Gradual Instant; Preface; Introducing Affect, Embodiment and Place in Critical Literacy; ORIENTING MAP I Mapping Posthuman Concepts; PLATEAU I Moving with Sensation and Affect; Listening to Junk: Sensorial Assemblages and Community Engagement; How Minor Gestures Generate Relational Transformations in the Act of Literacy Teaching and Learning; Experimentations in Affective Reading for Adult Language Classrooms; Planning-as-Burden, Planning-as-Gift: Shifting to Gift-Economy Approaches to Teaching and Learning; ORIENTING MAP II Opening Minds, Eyes, Ears and Doors: Emergent Learning Opportunities for Literacy Educators Weaving Theory in Everyday Classrooms; PLATEAU II Becoming Worldmakers with Ethics and Difference; What Nose Hill Taught Us About Boundary-Making, Boundary-Knowing, and Boundary-Becoming.
Biography
Kimberly Lenters is an associate professor of language and literacy education at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada.
Mairi McDermott is an assistant professor of sociology of education at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada.
