Affect Embodiment and Place in Critical Literacy

<p>This book explores the impact of sensation affect ethics and place on literacy learning from early childhood through to adult education. Chapters bridge the divide between theory and practice to consider how contemporary teaching and learning can promote posthuman values and perspectives.</p><p>By offering a posthuman approach to literacy research and pedagogy <i>Affect Embodiment and Place in Critical Literacy</i> re-works the theory-practice divide in literacy education to emphasize the ways in which learning is an affective and embodied process merging in a particular environment. Written by literacy educators and international literacy researchers this volume is divided into four sections focussing on: Moving with sensation and affect; becoming worldmakers with ethics and difference; relationships that matter in curriculum and place; before drawing together everything in a concise conclusion.</p><p>Affect Embodiment and Place in Critical Literacy is the perfect resource for researchers academics and postgraduate students in the fields of literacy education and philosophy of education as well as those seeking to explore the benefits of a posthumanism approach when conceptualising theory and practice in literacy education.</p>