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Challenging dominant views of early childhood language development and knowledge, this thought-provoking volume illuminates the importance of place, the body, and movement in opening space for young children's improvisatory, creative, playful language practices.
List of contents
ContentsBook Series Editors' ForwardForeword: Warda Farah
SECTION I: Introduction
1 Introduction KHAWLA BADWAN, RUTH CHURCHILL DOWER, WARDA FARAH, ROSIE FLEWITT, RACHEL HOLMES, ABIGAIL HACKETT, CHRISTINA MACRAE, VISHNU NAIR, DAVID BEN SHANNON
SECTION II: Language as bodily and material
2a Language as bodily and material ROSIE FLEWITT, RACHEL HOLMES, CHRISTINA MACRAE
2b Making time for unruliness in the special education classroom: Resisting the narrowing of neurotypicality in England YVONNE WILLIAMS and DAVID BEN SHANNON
2c Letting things become what they want to become: Uncertainty, improvisation, and resisting the tyranny of talk CHARLOTTE ARCULUS
2d Facilitating expressive language through body movements: Clinical implications MAYA LEELA
2e Speech Bubbles: How play, joy, and storytelling open up expansive possibilities for language ADAM POWER-ANNAND with ABIGAIL HACKETT
2f Coming together: Roundtable discussion on language as bodily and material CHARLOTTE ARCULUS, RACHEL HOLMES, MAYA LEELA, CHRISTINA MACRAE, ADAM POWER-ANNAND, DAVID BEN SHANNON, YVONNE WILLIAMS
SECTION III: Place and language
3a Place and Language WARDA FARAH, VISHNU NAIR, DAVID BEN SHANNON
3b Researching language and place: What is the evidence base? ABIGAIL HACKETT and DAVID BEN SHANNON
3c Rituals, vocalisations and creating comfortable spaces: A spatialised view of young children's language in museums ABI HACKETT, CHRISTINA MACRAE, DAVID BEN SHANNON, ROBERT CHESTER, LUCY COOKE, ESTHER HALLBERG, GEORGINA SIMMONS, LAURA SMITH-HIGGINS, SALLY TOON
3d Spaces of Reprieve: An emancipatory practice centring Black and Brown children labelled with communication difficulties WARDA FARAH and VISHNU NAIR
3e The entanglement between signed language, embodiment, and place LEALA HOLCOMB
3f Coming together: Roundtable discussion on place and language WARDA FARAH, ABI HACKETT, LEALA HOLCOMB, VISHNU KK NAIR, DAVID BEN SHANNON
SECTION IV: Language beyond meaning
4a Language beyond meaning KHAWLA BADWAN, RUTH CHURCHILL DOWER, ABIGAIL HACKETT
4b Beyond 'deficit' or 'lack': Enjoying the richness of language and meaning-making in a complex early childhood classroom WILLOW SPENCER, JESS CLARKE, DAVID BEN SHANNON
4c How might body-listening open up space for body-languaging? RUTH CHURCHILL DOWER
4d Who chooses my words? ANDREA LEE
4e Listening Body LOUISE KLARNETT
4f Coming together: Roundtable discussion on language beyond meaning RUTH CHURCHILL DOWER, ABIGAIL HACKETT, ANDREA LEE, DAVID BEN SHANNON
SECTION V: Rights of the Talker
5. The Rights of the Talker. A manifesto for chattering, whispering, translanguaging, not-speaking, non-verbalising, screeching, signing, clicking, twirling, stimming, assistive technology-ing, jumping, shouting, grasping, gasping, dancing, drawing, repeating, refusing, gesturing, glancing, smirking, eye-rolling, whistling...... ABIGAIL HACKETT, KHAWLA BADWAN, RUTH CHURCHILL DOWER, ESTER EHIYAZARYAN-WHITE, WARDA FARAH, ROSIE FLEWITT, KAREN GRAINGER, RACHEL HOLMES, CHRISTINA MACRAE, VISHNU NAIR, DAVID BEN SHANNON
About the author
Khawla Badwan is Reader in TESOL and Applied Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Ruth Churchill Dower is a PhD scholar at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, exploring young children's nonlingual ways of being through experiments in movement.
Warda Farah is a Social Entrepreneur, Speech & Language Therapist, Writer and Consultant.
Rosie Flewitt is Professor of Early Childhood Communication at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Abigail Hackett is a Professor of Childhood and Education at Sheffield Hallam University.
Rachel Holmes is a Professor in the Education and Social Research Institute of Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Christina MacRae is a Visiting Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Vishnu KK Nair is a Lecturer in the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences at University of Reading.
David Ben Shannon is a Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield.
