The Matter of Practice presents work by teacher-scholars from around the world who are rethinking the relationship between matter and meaning. By emphasizing spatial, bodily, and sensual dimensions of language and literacy practices, this volume offers a portrait of language pedagogy and research that challenges traditional barriers between subjects and objects, speech and noise, and languages and things. We envision the term new materialisms as an invitation to locate theorizing, researching, and teaching practices within the rhythms and textures of our material, sensory, and perceptual lives. These chapters enact a hope that increased engagement with our physical surroundings and sensory experiences can extend the sphere of our social, creative, and intellectual labor and expand our understanding of what counts as meaningful action.
This book explores the relationship between matter and meaning, emphasizing spatial, bodily, and sensual dimensions of language and literacy. It challenges traditional barriers and invites new materialisms, aiming to expand our understanding of meaningful action through sensory engagement.
Preface: Work in the New Materialisms; Curt Porter.
Part I. The Recreation Of Matter And Meaning In Language, Writing, And
Research.
Chapter
1. In Defense of Founding Gestures; Curt Porter.
Chapter
2. Encountering Difference Through Empathy and Translingualism; Julia
Kiernan and Eric Leake.
Chapter
3. Observant Participation and Representation in New Materialist
Research; Kelleen Toohey.
Chapter
4. Alignment and Apparatus: The Second Language Syllabus as Boundary
Setting Practice; Jack Peterson.
Chapter
5. An Occasion for Working the Little Picture: Situated Action
Research and the Materialities of Emergent Practice; Stacey Pigg.
Chapter
6. Behind the Academic Mask: Understanding Classroom Emotions Through
Dialogic Journaling; Catherine Gallagher, Stewart Gray, and Roxy Lee.
Chapter
7. Rereading Multiple Literacies Theory Through the Lens of Eastern
Philosophy; Yi Izzy Yu.
Part II. The Crafting Of Bodies, Arts, And Sensations.
Chapter
8. (Re)Making the Past/Present/Future: Experiencing the Picturebook
Making of Duncan Tonatiuh and Yuyi Morales; Angie Zapata and Candace R.
Kuby.
Chapter
9. A Pedagogy of Trans-orality: Reflections on the Development of
Embodied EFL Pronunciation Possibilities From a Korean Adoptee Perspective;
Amy Mihyang Ginther.
Chapter
10. Performativity in Motion: Rethinking Argumentation in Composition
Pedagogy; Brent Lucia.
Chapter
11. Falling Into Holes and Other Pleasures of Object-Based Learning;
Georgina Valverde.
Chapter
12. Music Lessons for Writers: Practice, Performance, and the
Development of Voice in Writing; Daniel J. Weinstein.
Chapter
13. Thinking With/Through New Materialist Concepts in the TESOL
Teacher-Training Classroom; Mark Love.
About the Editors.
About the Contributors.
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