Posthumanism and Literacy Education: Knowing/Becoming/Doing Literacies

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Covering key terms and concepts in the emerging field of posthumanism and literacy education, this volume investigates posthumanism, not as a lofty theory, but as a materialized way of knowing/becoming/doing the world. The contributors explore the ways that posthumanism helps educators better understand how students, families, and communities come to know/become/do literacies with other humans and nonhumans. Illustrative examples show how posthumanist theories are put to work in and out of school spaces as pedagogies and methodologies in literacy education. With contributions from a range of scholars, from emerging to established, and from both U.S. and international settings, the volume covers literacy practices from pre-K to adult literacy across various contexts. Chapter authors not only wrestle with methodological tensions in doing posthumanist research, but also situate it within pedagogies of teaching literacies. Inviting readers to pause, slow down, and consider posthumanist ways of thinking about agency, intra-activity, subjectivity, and affect, this book explores and experiments with new ways of seeing, understanding, and defining literacies, and allows readers to experience and intra-act with the book in ways more traditional (re)presentations do not. Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Preface: Overview of Chapters and (Un)Structure of Book Acknowledgements Cuts Too Small: An Introduction Part I Agency 1 Threads and Fingerprints: Diffractive Writings and Readings of Place 2 A Thebuwa Hauntology, From Silence to Speech: Reconfiguring Literacy Practices 3 Careful! There Are Monsters in This Chapter: Posthuman Ethical Considerations in Literacy Practice Diffracting: The Ungraspable In-Between of Posthuman Literacies Part II Intra-Action and Entanglement 4 The Untimely Death of a Bird: A Posthuman Tale 5 Reading Acts: Books, Activisms, and an Autopoietic Politics 6 Étienne Souriau and Educational Literacy Research as an Instaurative Event Diffracting: Human Limbs, Dead Birds, Active Books, and Bucking Horses: The Work to-be-Made of Literacies in the Present The First Monster Mutation: Sliding Into Summer Part III Subjectivity 7 Lives, Lines, and Spacetimemattering: An Intra-Active Analysis of a ‘Once OK’ Adult Writer 8 Collage Pedagogy: Toward a Posthuman Racial Literacy 9 Choosing a Picturebook as Provocation in Teacher Education: The ‘Posthuman Family’ Diffracting: Posthuman Literacies in a Minor Language: Expressions-to-Come The Second Monster Mutation: The Workshop Approach for Reading and Writing Instruction Part IV Affect 10 The Posthuman Condition of Ethics in Early Childhood Literacy: Order-in(g) Be(e)ing Literacy 11 Encountering Waste Landscapes: More-Than-Human Place Literacies in Early Childhood Education 12 Abductions Diffracting: Theory That Cats Have About Swift Louseflies: A Distractive Response The Third Monster Mutation: An Invitation of Being-With Monsters, Care-fully, Response-ably Contributor Biographies Index