Candace R. Kuby (editor) - Posthumanism and Literacy Education: Knowing/Becoming/Doing Literacies

Covering key terms and concepts in the emerging field of posthumanism and literacy education, this volume investigates posthumanism, not as a lofty theory, but as a materialized way of knowing/becoming/doing the world. The contributors explore the ways that posthumanism helps educators better understand how students, families, and communities come to know/become/do literacies with other humans and nonhumans. Illustrative examples show how posthumanist theories are put to work in and out of school spaces as pedagogies and methodologies in literacy education. With contributions from a range of scholars, from emerging to established, and from both U.S. and international settings, the volume covers literacy practices from pre-K to adult literacy across various contexts. Chapter authors not only wrestle with methodological tensions in doing posthumanist research, but also situate it within pedagogies of teaching literacies. Inviting readers to pause, slow down, and consider posthumanist ways of thinking about agency, intra-activity, subjectivity, and affect, this book explores and experiments with new ways of seeing, understanding, and defining literacies, and allows readers to experience and intra-act with the book in ways more traditional (re)presentations do not.

Candace R. Kuby is Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Missouri, USA.

Karen Spector is Associate Professor of Secondary Education Language Arts at the University of Alabama, USA.

Jaye Johnson Thiel is a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Georgia, USA.

Jennifer Rowsell and Cynthia Lewis, Series Editors

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Brice Nordquist

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Edited by Rahat Zaidi and Jennifer Rowsell

Reclaiming Powerful Literacies

New Horizons for Critical Discourse Analysis

Rebecca Rogers

Community Literacies as Shared Resources for Transformation

Edited by Joanne Larson and George H. Moses

Posthumanism and Literacy Education

Knowing/Becoming/Doing Literacies

Edited by Candace R. Kuby, Karen Spector, and Jaye Johnson Thiel

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Edited by Candace R. Kuby, Karen Spector, and Jaye Johnson Thiel

First published 2019

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kuby, Candace R., editor.

Title: Posthumanism and literacy education : knowing/becoming/doing literacies / edited by Candace R. Kuby, Karen Spector, and Jaye Johnson Thiel.

Description: New York : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Expanding literacies in education series | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018002877 | ISBN 9781138094390 (hardback) | ISBN 9781138094413 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781315106083 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: LiteracySocial aspects. | Humanism. | Critical pedagogy.

Classification: LCC LC149 .P66 2018 | DDC 302.2/244dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018002877

ISBN: 978-1-138-09439-0 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-09441-3 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-10608-3 (ebk)

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For Carlann and all the ways you teach me how literacies come to be and (re)configure our lively world. ~ Candace

For Zach, Sam, and Caleb. Your laughter makes my heart sing. ~ Karen

For my badass Paw Paw, your stories will forever echo in the words and worlds I craft. ~ Jaye