Vitalizing Vocabulary : Doing Pedagogy and Language in Early Childhood Education / Nicole Land and Cristina D. Vintimilla.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Land, Nicole, author.
• Vintimilla, Cristina Delgado, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Early childhood education--Canada.
• Language arts (Early childhood)--Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (154 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Thinking with language as a complex practice for educators, advocates, and researchers in early childhood education is a necessary gesture for countering the anti-intellectualism that designates early childhood education as a service providing custodial care. Vitalizing Vocabulary insists that early childhood education in Canada must unsettle our inherited demand for technocratic, instrumental, and accessible relations with language. At the collision of research and practice, Nicole Land and Cristina Delgado Vintimilla propose that cultivating playful, speculative, inventive, accountable, and answerable relations with words, concepts, and language is a critical move toward broadening early childhood education’s intellectual and interdisciplinary horizons. The book is organized into four actions that activate pedagogical grammars: reading, writing, citing, and speaking. Each section plays with the purposes of a glossary by proposing language that we would work to erase, reclaim, and introduce. This situates language as an ethical, political, and creative pedagogical process that puts specific relations, curricula, and subjectivities into motion. Vitalizing Vocabulary ultimately envisions a project of early childhood education where students, educators, pedagogists, researchers, community, and others share a common commitment to creating responsive, meaningful, ethical, and political pedagogies."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction - Vitalizing Vocabulary: Pedagogy and the Doings of Language in Early Childhood
• Section One: On Reading Practices
• On Reading Practices
• Inheriting Reading Practices
• Reading with Ongoing Settler Colonialism: Settler Futurities
• Reading with Neoliberalism: Truth, Comprehension, and Individualism
• Re-reading Reading Practices
• Propositions towards Re-inventing and Doing Reading
• Erase: Extraction
• Reclaim: Collaboration
• Introduce: Contamination
• Reading Forward
• Section Two: On Writing Practices
• Inheriting Writing Practices
• Writing as/with Reproduction
• Writing with Validity, Universalizing, and Expertise
• Re-writing Writing Practices
• Propositions towards Re-inventing and Doing Writing
• Erase: Accessibility
• Reclaim: Argument
• Introduce: Wilful
• Writing Forward
• Section Three: On Citing Practices
• On Citing Practices
• Inheriting Citing Practices
• Citing with Mastery
• Citing with Temporality
• Re-citing Citing Practices
• Propositions towards Re-inventing and Doing Citing
• Erase: Assimilation
• Reclaim: Up to Date
• Introduce: Agonism
• Citing Forward
• Section Four: On Speaking Practices
• On Speaking Practices
• Inheriting Speaking Practices
• Speaking with Authority
• Speaking with Charisma
• Re-speaking Speaking Practices
• Propositions towards Re-inventing and Doing Speaking
• Erase: Use Your Words
• Reclaim: Risk
• Introduce: Problem
• Speaking Forward
• Conclusion: Towards Otherwise Lively Vocabularies
• References
• Index.

Notes:

• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
• Description based on print version record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 1-4875-5941-0
• 1-4875-5940-2

OCLC:

1420776691