Pedagogical Matters: New Materialisms and Curriculum Studies
Sarah E. Truman (Ed.)
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Description for Pedagogical Matters: New Materialisms and Curriculum Studies
Paperback. Each chapter explores the ethical, aesthetic, and political tasks of education - both in and out of school contexts. It is essential reading for anyone interested in feminist, queer, anti-racist, ecological, and posthumanist theories and practices of education. Editor(s): Snaza, Nathan; Sonu, Debbie; Truman, Sarah E.; Zaliwska, Zofia. Series: Counterpoints. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: JNKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 225 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
This edited collection takes up the wild and sudden surge of new materialisms in the field of curriculum studies. New materialisms shift away from the strong focus on discourse associated with the linguistic or cultural turn in theory and toward recent work in the physical and biological sciences; in doing so, they posit ontologies of becoming that re-configure our sense of what a human person is and how that person relates to the more-than-human ecologies in which it is nested. Ignited by an urgency to disrupt the dangers of anthropocentrism and systems of domination in the work of curriculum and ... Read more
This edited collection takes up the wild and sudden surge of new materialisms in the field of curriculum studies. New materialisms shift away from the strong focus on discourse associated with the linguistic or cultural turn in theory and toward recent work in the physical and biological sciences; in doing so, they posit ontologies of becoming that re-configure our sense of what a human person is and how that person relates to the more-than-human ecologies in which it is nested. Ignited by an urgency to disrupt the dangers of anthropocentrism and systems of domination in the work of curriculum and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Counterpoints
Condition
New
Weight
358g
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781433131325
SKU
V9781433131325
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About Sarah E. Truman (Ed.)
Nathan Snaza holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Minnesota and teaches literature, educational foundations, and cultural theory at the University of Richmond. Debbie Sonu holds an EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University, and is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Teaching at Hunter College, CUNY. Sarah E. Truman is a doctoral candidate in Curriculum Studies and ... Read more
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