More-Than-Human Literacies in Early Childhood

<i>More-Than-Human Literacies in Early Childhood</i> draws on a long-term ethnographic research into the role of place materiality and the body in the literacies of young children aged 12-36 months. It builds a picture of how children participate in or become caught up in literacies and language in the contexts of their everyday lives. <br/> <br/> Throughout the book recognised understandings of young children are decentred in favour of experiential knowing of parents and communities body-place knowing and ordinary affects. Abigail Hackett argues that young children's literacies are always more-than-human involving sounds gestures and movements between humans and nonhuman places and things. By paying close attention to the more-than-human nature of these literacies which rely on bodies places animals humans objects and atmospheres for their ongoingness a case is made for the decentring of young children. <br/> <br/> The book will be of particular interest to researchers looking at feminist-new materialism posthumanism affect theory and critical literacy in early childhood settings.