Description:
This book mobilizes concepts associated with new materialism, posthumanism, and relational ontologies with respect to language and literacy education. The book stimulates other educators to engage in similar 'experiments', and assesses how these concepts offer new ways of understanding diverse educational sites.
Review Quotes:
"This book unsettles the reader through stories, questions, wonderings, and wanderings; it takes us through a series of encounters into the not-yet-known. The authors invite us to explore, as educators, the emergence of our own capacity to affect and be affected by others--where those others are both human and more-than-human. The multiple and emergent educational encounters that the authors offer us are embodied, and they are grounded in place; and they take us, through new materialist and posthumanist experimentation, into inspiring new ways of knowing-in-being. Together these papers engage in a Baradian ethico-onto-epistemological exploration of pedagogical becomings. They are beautifully written and make a vital and timely contribution to educational thought and practice."
Bronwyn Davies Emeritus Professor Western Sydney University
"Calling for radical hope, this volume opens potentials for language and literacies research that reaches beyond critique alone and into more just, speculative futures. Toward such futures, the authors develop orientations to language and literacies research that value the 'more than' of experience that affects this sense of radical hope."
Christian Ehret, McGill University