Literacy, power, and the schooled body : learning in time and space / Kerryn Dixon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dixon, Kerryn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literacy--Social aspects--South Africa.

Literacy.

Early childhood education--Social aspects--South Africa.

Early childhood education.

Classroom management--Social aspects--South Africa.

Classroom management.

Critical pedagogy--South Africa.

Critical pedagogy.

Classroom management--Social aspects.

Early childhood education--Social aspects.

Literacy--Social aspects.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

x, 182 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.

Summary:

What effects do space and time have on classroom management, discipline, and regulation? How do teachers' practices create schooled and literate students? To explore these questions, this book looks at early childhood classrooms, charting the shifts and continuities as 4-year-old children begin preschool, move from preschool into primary school, and come to the end of the first phase of schooling at 9 years. The literacy classroom is used as a specific site in which to examine how children's bodies are disciplined to become literate (for example, holding pencils, reading from left to right, turning pages, and what they understand are the uses of reading and writing).

This is not a book that theorizes space, time, discipline, bodies, and literacy in complex and abstract ways. Rather, working from a Foucaultian premise that discipline is directed onto children's bodies, it moves from theory to practice. Theory is used as an aid to understanding real classroom events. Photographs, lesson transcripts, interviews, and children's work are used to show how teachers' practices are enacted on children's bodies in time and space. In this way, teachers are offered practical examples from which to think about their own classrooms and classroom practice, opening space for them to reflect on what works, why it works, and what can be changed. Book jacket.

Contents:

Schooling the body

Schooling and space

Space and time

Managing and regulating bodies

Reading bodies

Writing bodies

Assessing bodies

Implications for literacy education.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415879620

0415879620

9780415879637

0415879639

9780203851487

020385148X

OCLC:

491890172