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The Posthuman Child : Educational Transformation Through Philosophy with Picturebooks.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (301 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317511694
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 370.115
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Laika -- PART I A posthumanist philosophical orientation -- 2 The labyrinth: enacting all three aims of teacher education -- A diffractive pause: the diffractive journal -- 3 This is not a child -- A diffractive pause: statue-breast-infant-woman -- A diffractive pause: an idea that needs legs and mouths and ears to spread -- 4 Posthuman child -- A diffractive pause: Liam's photos at/of his sister's wedding -- 5 Figurations of child and childhood -- A diffractive pause: child-in-the-making - creating bodymind maps -- 6 Ontoepistemic injustice and Listening without Organs -- A diffractive pause: how to read Granny and the Goldfish -- PART II Posthumanist intra-active pedagogies -- 7 Reading Reggio Emilia and philosophy with children diffractively through one another -- 8 Educator as pregnant stingray -- A diffractive pause: a pregnant stingray in South Africa -- 9 Destabilising binaries through philosophy with picturebooks -- A diffractive pause: the Anthony Browne-Destabilising-Binary-project -- 10 Decolonising education: black and white elephants with guns -- A diffractive pause: (a)mazement -- References -- Index.
Summary: The Posthuman Child combats institutionalised ageist practices in primary, early childhood and teacher education. Grounded in a critical posthumanist perspective on the purpose of education, it provides a genealogy of psychology, sociology and philosophy of childhood in which dominant figurations of child and childhood are exposed as positioning child as epistemically and ontologically inferior. Entangled throughout this book are practical and theorised examples of philosophical work with student teachers, teachers, other practitioners and children (aged 3-11) from South Africa and Britain. These engage arguments about how children are routinely marginalised, discriminated against and denied, especially when the child is also female, black, lives in poverty and whose home language is not English. The book makes a distinctive contribution to the decolonisation of childhood discourses. Underpinned by good quality picturebooks and other striking images, the book's radical proposal for transformation is to reconfigure the child as rich, resourceful and resilient through relationships with (non) human others, and explores the implications for literary and literacy education, teacher education, curriculum construction, implementation and assessment. It is essential reading for all who research, work and live with children.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Laika -- PART I A posthumanist philosophical orientation -- 2 The labyrinth: enacting all three aims of teacher education -- A diffractive pause: the diffractive journal -- 3 This is not a child -- A diffractive pause: statue-breast-infant-woman -- A diffractive pause: an idea that needs legs and mouths and ears to spread -- 4 Posthuman child -- A diffractive pause: Liam's photos at/of his sister's wedding -- 5 Figurations of child and childhood -- A diffractive pause: child-in-the-making - creating bodymind maps -- 6 Ontoepistemic injustice and Listening without Organs -- A diffractive pause: how to read Granny and the Goldfish -- PART II Posthumanist intra-active pedagogies -- 7 Reading Reggio Emilia and philosophy with children diffractively through one another -- 8 Educator as pregnant stingray -- A diffractive pause: a pregnant stingray in South Africa -- 9 Destabilising binaries through philosophy with picturebooks -- A diffractive pause: the Anthony Browne-Destabilising-Binary-project -- 10 Decolonising education: black and white elephants with guns -- A diffractive pause: (a)mazement -- References -- Index.

The Posthuman Child combats institutionalised ageist practices in primary, early childhood and teacher education. Grounded in a critical posthumanist perspective on the purpose of education, it provides a genealogy of psychology, sociology and philosophy of childhood in which dominant figurations of child and childhood are exposed as positioning child as epistemically and ontologically inferior. Entangled throughout this book are practical and theorised examples of philosophical work with student teachers, teachers, other practitioners and children (aged 3-11) from South Africa and Britain. These engage arguments about how children are routinely marginalised, discriminated against and denied, especially when the child is also female, black, lives in poverty and whose home language is not English. The book makes a distinctive contribution to the decolonisation of childhood discourses. Underpinned by good quality picturebooks and other striking images, the book's radical proposal for transformation is to reconfigure the child as rich, resourceful and resilient through relationships with (non) human others, and explores the implications for literary and literacy education, teacher education, curriculum construction, implementation and assessment. It is essential reading for all who research, work and live with children.

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