Language, Place and the Body in Childhood Literacies

Theory, Practice and Social Justice
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-67791-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Expanding Literacies in Education

Challenging dominant views of early childhood language development and knowledge, this thought-provoking volume illuminates the importance of place, the body, and movement in opening space for young children’s improvisatory, creative, playful language practices.

Bringing together a rich collection of contemporary research and diverse perspectives, the book centers on the premise that ‘where’ talk happens—be it spoken, mimed, signed, or assisted through one or more communication tools—is not a neutral backdrop or controllable variable. Rather, it is deeply entangled in the emergence of language from bodies, in how these vocalizations make their way into the world, what they might feel like and set into motion, and how they are received, heard and listened to by other humans and by non-humans. Chapter authors introduce theories about language, body, and place, while also providing examples of what this work may look like in practice.

This book is key reading for those who work with young children and families, including teachers, pre-service teachers studying child development, speech and language therapists, support workers, and those in the arts, cultural and environmental sectors.   It is also highly relevant to researchers, literacy education scholars, and anyone who endeavors to think more expansively and critically about language and literacy in early childhood contexts.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hackett, Abigail

Badwan, Khawla

MacRae, Christina

Dower, Ruth Churchill

Ben Shannon, David

Farah, Warda

Flewitt, Rosie

Holmes, Rachel

Nair, Vishnu Kk

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Grundschulen, Hauptschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Kindergarten & Vorschule

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

 

Book Series Editors’ Forward

 

Foreword: Warda Farah

 

SECTION I: Introduction

1            Introduction

              KHAWLA BADWAN, RUTH CHURCHILL DOWER, WARDA FARAH, ROSIE FLEWITT, RACHEL HOLMES, ABIGAIL HACKETT, CHRISTINA MACRAE, VISHNU NAIR, DAVID BEN SHANNON

 

SECTION II: Language as bodily and material

2a          Language as bodily and material

              ROSIE FLEWITT, RACHEL HOLMES, CHRISTINA MACRAE

 

2b         Making time for unruliness in the special education classroom: Resisting the narrowing of neurotypicality in England

              YVONNE WILLIAMS and DAVID BEN SHANNON

 

2c          Letting things become what they want to become: Uncertainty, improvisation, and resisting the tyranny of talk

              CHARLOTTE ARCULUS

 

2d         Facilitating expressive language through body movements: Clinical implications

              MAYA LEELA

 

2e         Speech Bubbles: How play, joy, and storytelling open up expansive possibilities for language

              ADAM POWER-ANNAND with ABIGAIL HACKETT

 

2f          Coming together: Roundtable discussion on language as bodily and material

              CHARLOTTE ARCULUS, RACHEL HOLMES, MAYA LEELA, CHRISTINA MACRAE, ADAM POWER-ANNAND, DAVID BEN SHANNON, YVONNE WILLIAMS

 

SECTION III:  Place and language

3a          Place and Language

              WARDA FARAH, VISHNU NAIR, DAVID BEN SHANNON

 

3b         Researching language and place: What is the evidence base?

              ABIGAIL HACKETT and DAVID BEN SHANNON

 

3c          Rituals, vocalisations and creating comfortable spaces: A spatialised view of young children’s language in museums

              ABI HACKETT, CHRISTINA MACRAE, DAVID BEN SHANNON, ROBERT CHESTER, LUCY COOKE, ESTHER HALLBERG, GEORGINA SIMMONS, LAURA SMITH-HIGGINS, SALLY TOON

 

3d         Spaces of Reprieve: An emancipatory practice centring Black and Brown children labelled with communication difficulties

              WARDA FARAH and VISHNU NAIR

 

3e          The entanglement between signed language, embodiment, and place

              LEALA HOLCOMB

 

3f          Coming together: Roundtable discussion on place and language

              WARDA FARAH, ABI HACKETT, LEALA HOLCOMB, VISHNU KK NAIR, DAVID BEN SHANNON

 

SECTION IV: Language beyond meaning

4a          Language beyond meaning

              KHAWLA BADWAN, RUTH CHURCHILL DOWER, ABIGAIL HACKETT

 

4b         Beyond ‘deficit’ or ‘lack’: Enjoying the richness of language and meaning-making in a complex early childhood classroom

              WILLOW SPENCER, JESS CLARKE, DAVID BEN SHANNON

 

4c          How might body-listening open up space for body-languaging?

              RUTH CHURCHILL DOWER

 

4d         Who chooses my words?

              ANDREA LEE

 

4e         Listening Body

              LOUISE KLARNETT

 

4f          Coming together: Roundtable discussion on language beyond meaning

              RUTH CHURCHILL DOWER, ABIGAIL HACKETT, ANDREA LEE, DAVID BEN SHANNON

 

SECTION V: Rights of the Talker

5.           The Rights of the Talker. A manifesto for chattering, whispering, translanguaging, not-speaking, non-verbalising, screeching, signing, clicking, twirling, stimming, assistive technology-ing, jumping, shouting, grasping, gasping, dancing, drawing, repeating, refusing, gesturing, glancing, smirking, eye-rolling, whistling……

              ABIGAIL HACKETT, KHAWLA BADWAN, RUTH CHURCHILL DOWER, ESTER EHIYAZARYAN-WHITE, WARDA FARAH, ROSIE FLEWITT, KAREN GRAINGER, RACHEL HOLMES, CHRISTINA MACRAE, VISHNU NAIR, DAVID BEN SHANNON

Über Autor(innen)

Khawla Badwan is Reader in TESOL and Applied Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Ruth Churchill Dower is a PhD scholar at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, exploring young children's nonlingual ways of being through experiments in movement.

Warda Farah is a Social Entrepreneur, Speech & Language Therapist, Writer and Consultant.

Rosie Flewitt is Professor of Early Childhood Communication at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Abigail Hackett is a Professor of Childhood and Education at Sheffield Hallam University.

Rachel Holmes is a Professor in the Education and Social Research Institute of Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Christina MacRae is a Visiting Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Vishnu KK Nair is a Lecturer in the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences at University of Reading. 

David Ben Shannon is a Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield.