Overview
Thinking with language as a complex practice for educators, advocates, and researchers in early childhood education is a necessary gesture for countering the anti-intellectualism that designates early childhood education as a service providing custodial care. Vitalizing Vocabulary insists that early childhood education in Canada must unsettle our inherited demand for technocratic, instrumental, and accessible relations with language. At the collision of research and practice, Nicole Land and Cristina D. Vintimilla propose that cultivating playful, speculative, inventive, accountable, and answerable relations with words, concepts, and language is a critical move toward broadening early childhood education's intellectual and interdisciplinary horizons. The book is organised into four actions that activate pedagogical grammars: reading, writing, citing, and speaking. Each section plays with the purposes of a glossary by proposing language that we would work to erase, reclaim, and introduce. This situates language as an ethical, political, and creative pedagogical process that puts specific relations, curricula, and subjectivities into motion. Vitalizing Vocabulary ultimately envisions a project of early childhood education where students, educators, pedagogists, researchers, community, and others share a common commitment to creating responsive, meaningful, ethical, and political pedagogies.
Full Product Details
Author: Nicole Land ,
Cristina D. Vintimilla
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.200kg
ISBN: 9781487559397
ISBN 10: 1487559399
Pages: 154
Publication Date: 03 October 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Not yet available, will be POD
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Reviews
"""Nicole Land and Cristina D. Vintimilla's Vitalizing Vocabulary might be little in size, but it certainly is not small on ideas. This generous and thoughtful book has much to be admired. The authors invite the field of early childhood to consider reading, writing, citing, and speaking as pedagogical practices for figuring out how to live well together. Beautifully written and provocatively presented, these ideas stick with you, encouraging yet another look, another read, another thought, another wonder. Grab this book quick, pop it in your bag, and enjoy how it activates thinking, learning, and relations.""--Mindy Blaise, Vice Chancellor's Professorial Research Fellow and Director, Centre for People, Place, and Planet, Edith Cowan University, and co-founder of The Common Worlds Research Collective and #FEAS Feminist Educators Against Sexism ""Land and Vintimilla offer a vibrant and lively engagement with the language of education, current, past, and future. Moving beyond ordinary critique, the volume forges new vocabularies that imaginatively capture the richness of the work and practice of education. This is no dry academic text; the writing sparkles and the ideas explored ignite imaginaries that respond to everyday complexities as opposed to simplifying them. Located within the fault lines of Early Childhood Education, the book resonates far beyond this field and is an indispensable addition to the field of public education, in all its forms."" --Sharon Todd, Professor of Education, Maynooth University"
Author Information
Nicole Land is an assistant professor in the School of Early Childhood Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University. Cristina D. Vintimilla is an associate professor of Early Childhood in the Faculty of Education at York University.
