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This edited collection takes up the wild and sudden surge of new materialisms in the field of curriculum studies. New materialisms shift away from the strong focus on discourse associated with the linguistic or cultural turn in theory and toward recent work in the physical and biological sciences; in doing so, they posit ontologies of becoming that re-configure our sense of what a human person is and how that person relates to the more-than-human ecologies in which it is nested. Ignited by an urgency to disrupt the dangers of anthropocentrism and systems of domination in the work of curriculum and pedagogy, this book builds upon the axiom that agency is not a uniquely human capacity but something inherent in all matter. This collection blurs the boundaries of human and non-human, animate and inanimate, to focus on webs of interrelations. Each chapter explores these questions while attending to the ethical, aesthetic, and political tasks of education-both in and out of school contexts. It is essential reading for anyone interested in feminist, queer, anti-racist, ecological, and posthumanist theories and practices of education.
List of contents
Robert Helfenbein: Preface: Entanglement - Nathan Snaza, Debbie Sonu, Sarah Truman, and Zofia Zaliwska: Introduction: Re-attuning to the Materiality of Education - Elizabeth St. Pierre: Curriculum for New Material, New Empirical Inquiry - Linda Knight: Playgrounds as Sites of Radical Encounters: Mapping Material, Affective, Spatial, and Pedagogical Collisions - Nathan Snaza and Debbie Sonu: Bodies, Borders, and the Politics of Attention - Elizabeth de Freitas and Francesca Ferrarra: Matter, Movement, and Memory - Stephanie Springgay: Meditating with Bees: Weather Bodies and a Pedagogy of Movement - Walter Gershon: The Sound of Silence: The Material Consequences of Scholarship - Sarah Truman: Intratextual Entanglements: Emergent Pedagogies and the Productive Potential of Texts - Gabe Huddleston: The Zombie in the Room: Using Popular Culture as an Apparatus - Zofia Zaliwska: Moving-Back-Through-A Matter of Research - Mark Helmsing: Life at Large: New Materialisms for a (Re)new(ing) Curriculum of Social Studies Education - Kirsten Robbins: A Matter of Power - Paul Eaton: Multiple Materiality Across Distributed Social Media - Nikki Rotas: Moving Toward Practices That Matter
About the author
Nathan Snaza holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Minnesota and teaches literature, educational foundations, and cultural theory at the University of Richmond. Debbie Sonu holds an EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University, and is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Teaching at Hunter College, CUNY. Sarah E. Truman is a doctoral candidate in Curriculum Studies and in Book History and Print Culture at the University of Toronto. Zofia Zaliwska is a doctoral candidate in Curriculum Studies and Teacher Development at the University of Toronto.
Summary
Each chapter explores the ethical, aesthetic, and political tasks of education – both in and out of school contexts. It is essential reading for anyone interested in feminist, queer, anti-racist, ecological, and posthumanist theories and practices of education.
