The Matter of Practice
Exploring New Materialisms in the Research and Teaching of Languages and Literacies
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2021
257 pages
978-1-64802-311-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Matter of Practice presents work by teacher-scholars from around the world who are rethinking the relationship between matter and meaning. By emphasizing spatial, bodily, and sensual dimensions of language and literacy practices, this volume offers a portrait of language pedagogy and research that challenges traditional barriers between subjects and objects, speech and noise, and languages and things. We envision the term 'new materialisms' as an invitation to locate theorizing, researching, and teaching practices within the rhythms and textures of our material, sensory, and perceptual lives. These chapters enact a hope that increased engagement with our physical surroundings and sensory experiences can extend the sphere of our social, creative, and intellectual labor and expand our understanding of what 'counts' as meaningful action.
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Exploring New Materialisms in the Research and Teaching of Languages and Literacies
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Content
- Cover
- Series page
- The Matter of Practice
- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
- Contents
- Preface
- PART I: THE RE-CREATION OF MATTER AND MEANING IN LANGUAGE, WRITING, AND RESEARCH
- CHAPTER 1: In Defense of Founding Gestures
- CHAPTER 2: Encountering Difference Through Empathy and Translingualism
- CHAPTER 3: Observant Participation and Representation in New Materialist Research
- CHAPTER 4: Alignment and Apparatus
- CHAPTER 5: An Occasion for "Working the Little Picture"
- CHAPTER 6: Behind the Academic Mask
- CHAPTER 7: Rereading Multiple Literacies Theory Through the Lens of Eastern Philosophy
- PART II: THE CRAFTING OF BODIES, ARTS, AND SENSATIONS
- CHAPTER 8: (Re)Making the Past/Present/Future
- CHAPTER 9: A Pedagogy of Trans-orality
- CHAPTER 10: Performativity in Motion
- CHAPTER 11: Falling Into Holes and Other Pleasures of Object-Based Learning
- CHAPTER 12: Music Lessons for Writers
- CHAPTER 13: Thinking With/Through New Materialist Concepts in the TESOL Teacher-Training Classroom
- ABOUT THE EDITORS
- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
