Pedagogical matters : new materialisms and curriculum studies / edited by Nathan Snaza, Debbie Sonu, Sarah E. Truman, and Zofia Zaliwska.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Snaza, Nathan, editor.

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Series:

Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 501.

Counterpoints : studies in criticality, 1058-1634 ; Vol. 501

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical pedagogy.

Ontology.

Agent (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xxiii, 212 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2016]

Summary:

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 reconfigure 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : Re-attuning to the Materiality of Education / Nathan Snaza, Debbie Sonu, Sarah E. Truman, and Zofia Zaliwska

Curriculum for New Material, New Empirical Inquiry / Elizabeth St. Pierre

Playgrounds as Sites of Radical Encounters : A Mapping of Material, Affective, Spatial, and Pedagogical Collisions / Linda Knight

Bodies, Borders, and the Politics of Attention / Nathan Snaza and Debbie Sonu

Matter, Movement, and Memory / Elizabeth de Freitas and Francesca Ferrarra

Meditating with Bees : Weather Bodies and a Pedagogy of Movement / Stephanie Springgay

The Sound of Silence : The Material Consequences of Scholarship / Walter Gershon

Intratextual Entanglements : A Multi-participant Investigation into the Generative Potential of Texts / Sarah Truman

The Zombie in the Room : Using Popular Culture as an Apparatus / Gabe Huddleston

Moving-Back-Through : A Matter of Research / Zofia Zaliwska

Life at Large New Materialisms for a (Re)new(ing) Curriculum of Social Studies Education / Mark Helmsing

A Matter of Power / Kirsten Robbins

Multiple Materiality Across Distributed Social Media / Paul Eaton

Moving Toward Practices that Matter / Nikki Rotas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781433131332

1433131331

9781433131325

1433131323

OCLC:

950908077