Description:
Covering key concepts in the field of posthumanism and literacy education, this volume investigates posthumanism as a materialized way of knowing/becoming/doing the world. Illustrative examples show how posthumanist theories are put to work in and out of school spaces as pedagogies and methodologies in literacy education.
Review Quotes:
"This 'full throated appeal to intra-act with posthumanist ideas' moves bodies, shifts ideas, and unsettles assumptions. Thinking literacy education, together with critical, decolonial, Indigenous and feminist new materialist scholarship, highlights the violence of making 'cuts too small' when it comes to how we consider literacy practices, and cuts that exclude and marginalise. This collection invites us to imagine and speculate on what knowing/being/doing literacies are or could be."
--Abigail Hackett, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
"This book is fascinating--each chapter is compelling and challenges the reader to consider what it means to live, learn and be/become literate. Constructed with great care, critical concepts from post humanist thinking are given deep consideration and then playfully remixed through diffractive composings and monstrous mutations."
--Pam Whitty, University of New Brunswick, Canada