1st Edition
Affect in Literacy Learning and Teaching Pedagogies, Politics and Coming to Know
In this cutting-edge volume, scholars from around the world connect affect theory to the field of literacy studies and unpack the role and influence of this emerging area of scholarship on literacy education. Offering an introduction to affect theory and scholarship as it relates to literacy studies, contributors discuss the role of humanizing and dehumanizing influences on schooling and examine the emotional and affective dimensions at individual and communal levels. Arguing that an affective turn requires a radical rethinking of the nature of literacy, these chapters address the impact and import of emotion and affect on reading, writing and calling to action. Grounded in trailblazing research, the contributors push the boundaries of academic writing and model how theoretically-driven writing about affect must itself be moving and expressive.
Part 1: Pedagogies
Movement 1. Pedagogy under the Waterline of Perceived Value
Chapter 1. Affective Flows in the Clinic and the Classroom
Gail Boldt
Chapter 2. Propositions for a Radical Pedagogy, or How to Rethink Value
Erin Manning
Chapter 3. Charlene’s Puppies: Embarrassing Obsessions or Vibrant Matter Entangled in Ethical Literacies?
Kimberly Lenters
Part 2: Politics
Movement 2. Uninterpretable Politics in Literacy Research and Practice
Chapter 4. Visceral Literacies, Political Intensities: Affect as Critical Potential in Literacy Research and Practice
Elizabeth Dutro
Chapter 5. Assembling Desire, Love, and Affect in an Art Museum School
Jonathan Eakle and Tatiana I. Sanguinette
Chapter 6. ‘It’s something that requires passion’: After-echoes of the Ethnic Studies Ban
Alyssa D. Niccolini
Chapter 7. Thinking and feeling the interval: A few movements of a ‘transnational’ family
Ana Christina da Silva and Kevin Leander
Part 3: Coming to Know
Movement 3. Affectively Charged Foldings of Literacy and Coming to Know
Chapter 8. Why a More Human Literacy Studies must be Posthuman: Encountering Writing During and after the Holocaust
Christian Ehret and Daniella D’Amico
Chapter 9. Affective Sketches: Writing, Drawing, and Living with Analysis
Ty Hollett and Jaclyn Dudek
Chapter 10. Coded to Smithereens and Danced to Abstraction: Forms of Affect in the Industry of Research
Mia Perry
Chapter 11. Telling Stories Out of Class: Three Movements in a Reach for Affect
Cathy Burnett
Afterword
Michalinos Zembylas
Biography
Kevin M. Leander is Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt University, USA.
Christian Ehret is Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University, Canada.