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Vitalizing Vocabulary

Doing Pedagogy and Language in Early Childhood Education

by (author) Nicole Land & Cristina D. Vintimilla

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2024
Category
General, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Preschool & Kindergarten
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781487559397
    Publish Date
    Oct 2024
    List Price
    $29.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487559410
    Publish Date
    Aug 2024
    List Price
    $29.95

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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 organized 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.

About the authors

Nicole Land is an assistant professor in the School of Early Childhood Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University.

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Cristina D. Vintimilla is an associate professor of Early Childhood in the Faculty of Education at York University.

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