Vital Literacies from the Clinic to the Classroom

Exploring the Unconscious Dynamics of Learning and Change

AvGail Boldt

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Drawing upon the author’s experiences as a child psychotherapist, classroom teacher, and literacy scholar, this book explores the affective and unconscious dynamics that are at the heart of literacy in order to reconceptualize learning in the elementary literacy classroom.Moving beyond rationalist understandings of literacy, the book argues for the importance of unconscious, embodied, and relational processes in literacy research and teacher education. Boldt shows how her clinical practice with children who rarely used speech to represent their lives or their struggles altered her understanding of the role of language, representation, and learning in classrooms. Bringing these insights to literacy classrooms, the book argues that such affective and relational processes are fundamental to how children encounter curriculum, one another, and themselves as learners, while also revealing how curriculum and pedagogy implicitly and explicitly communicate who and what comes to matter in schools.This book will be an enlightening resource for teacher educators, literacy researchers and curriculum theorists, as well as students and scholars of early childhood education.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-11-30
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Expanding Literacies in Education
Antal sidor:168
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032877693

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Gail Boldt is a Distinguished Professor of Education in Literacy in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Penn State University. She is also a psychoanalytically-oriented therapist, trained in providing play therapy to children.

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“As moving as it is insightful, Boldt draws on psychoanalytic clinical experience to review the vitality, affect, and relational life at the heart of literacy classrooms.”-Joe Tobin, Emeritus Professor at University of Georgia"This book moves me, moves the field, moves texts and teaching relationships and material worlds into renewed, humane possibilities. As a skilled therapist, Gail Boldt helps us follow what we feel in our bodies, in classrooms, but can’t quite find words for. And, as a skilled scholar, she helps us follow radically transformative concepts back to real kids, real spaces, and stories that matter."-Kevin M. Leander, Professor, University of Southern Denmark, Professor Emeritus, Vanderbilt University

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: Vital Literacies: Relational Dynamics of Learning and Change 2. Learning and Change: Becoming Beyond Representation 3. Polymodality in the Classroom: Sound, Movement, and Rhythm 4. Relational-Material Fields 5. Vital Literacies