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David Ben Shannon; Abigail Hackett – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2024
In this article, the authors argue for what Édouard Glissant terms the 'right to opacity' in teaching and assessing communication and language skills in early childhood education (ECE). We draw from Glissant's writing on Relation, and his interrelated concepts of 'opacity' and 'transparency', to consider two vignettes from sensory ethnographic…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Communication Skills, Language Skills, Child Language
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Evans, Sarah; Harrison, Michaela; Rousell, David – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
This paper addresses the irruptive potentiality of language in rethinking pivotal concepts in pre-service and in-service teacher education. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari's reconceptualization of language, we undertake a radical undoing of dominant concepts of pedagogy, curriculum, and assessment as 'order-words' that variously segment, delimit,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Language Role, Teaching Methods
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Rodriguez Leon, Lucy – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023
Research framed by evolving sociocultural theories have been fundamental in advancing the study of early childhood literacies. More recently the field has been enriched by posthumanist theories that have shifted the analytic gaze from children's participation in literacy practices and events, to the fluid relationality of literacies. Concurrently,…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Sociocultural Patterns, Preschool Children, Literacy