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