This book presents a critical reimagining of education and educational research in addressing practices of representation and their relation to epistemology, subjectivity and ontology in the context of early childhood education. Drawing on posthumanist perspectives and the immanent materialism of Deleuze & Guattari to conceive of early childhood education, childhood and indeed, adult life, in new ways, it highlights the powerful role of language in subjectivity and ontology, and introduces affectensity as a concept which can be put to work to undo habitual relations and meanings. It proposes that ethical becomings require the engagement of an expansion and intensification of a body’s affect or capacity, and offers readers a provocation for enhancing creative capacity as an ethic. This book is an important contribution to the discussions on methods for living and of ways of thinking commensurate with the orientation of a posthuman turn.
Author(s): Victoria Jane Hargraves
Series: Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 191
City: Singapore
Preface: Reading Affectensities
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
1 Starting Stratified: The Highchair
Highchair as and in Expression
Mapping Highchairs-Infants-Bottles-Adult-Food Expressions
A Curricular Tracing
Highchair Stratified and Destratified
References
2 Framing the Creativity of Chaos
First Framing
Reframing
Reframing
Reframing
Reframing
References
3 Relations In/Between Content and Expression: Moving Beyond “This is a Cow and a Cow Says Moo”
Mapping New Relations for/in/as Content and Expression
Content-Expressions of/in/with Early Childhood Education
The Gap of Nonresemblance
A Detour in/with Affect
Expression-Becoming-Affectensity
Intensifying Ethics …
References
4 Mapping Expression as the Monstrosity of an Earthquake Meets Doing-Curriculum
Children and Teachers “Talking and Thinking About Earthquakes?”
Mapping for Affectensity? Notes on an Image
Intensifying Being-Pedagogy
References
5 Assembling Thought: Experiments in Juxtaposition
Piaget’s 2020 Lecture in Which Deleuze and Guattari Sit in the Audience
A Constructionist Structuralism for Genetic Psychology
Rhizomatic Thoughts of Education in Aotearoa New Zealand
References
6 How Creative is Subjectification? Capturing Contingency in the Subject
Complicating Stratification as a Theory of the Subject
[Capture]
…Contingency…
An Ethics of the Subject
Fleeing the Monster—Working the Interval for an Ethics of the Subject
An Education-Machine Interprets
… The Child Improvises
References
7 Working the In-Betweens of Material Expression
Clay Sits on Table
Clay Sits on Table
Intensifying Data/Material
References
8 Repetition, Refrain, Creativity
The Consistency of Difference in Repetition
Differing: Difference-Becoming-Ontological
Differing: Difference-Becoming-Univocity
Differing: Difference-Becoming-Passage-and-Movement
Differing Again: Difference-Becoming-Creative-Energy
Difference Shakes up Ontogenesis Again and Again and Again… a Refrain Develops
The Refrain
To Refrain …
References
9 The Affect of Language: Order-in(g) the Child’s World of Bees
Movements Out of Order
Enacting an Interval: Order-Word/Bee
Intensifying Language, Code …
References
10 Making Creative Sense of Chaos
Developing a Style of Sense
Making Sense of Signs
The Power of Sense
Sensing a Way to a Style
Sense(:) a Truth, but Only What Works
Intensifying Stories of Life and Self
References
11 Concluding Rhythms: To Dance
Intensifying Method
A Becoming-Differential of Becoming-Dance
A Becoming-Passage of Becoming-Dance
A Becoming-Territory of Becoming-Dance
A Becoming-Diagram of Becoming-Dance
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