Why a paradigm shift of ‘more than human ontologies’ is needed: putting to work poststructural and posthuman theories in writers’ studio

Learning from Ninjas: young people’s films as a lens for an expanded view of literacy and language

“…These refuse to take the distinction between humans and non-humans for granted and trouble the epistemological certainties of a human-centred perspective (Kuby, 2017). By privileging emergence and nonhuman encounters, we were able to see different things -the permit, the bench and the swords.…”

Answering the world: young children’s running and rolling as more-than-human multimodal meaning making

“…The prevailing new materialist and posthumanist approaches to notions such as agency or literacy emphasize the complexly entangled and blurred existence of self as relational and intraactive, seeking to break the hegemony of isolated subjectivity (e.g. Kuby 2017). Much of this scholarship can be taken to celebrate continuity, similarity and relationsameness, or the 'surpassing of the bounded self' (Weinstone, 2004, p.93).…”

“…The work discussed above on entanglement, similarity, difference and intentionality with regard to the emergence of semiotic signs, is a fruitful direction for the reconceptualization of young children's multimodal meaning making as more-than-human. This builds on the recent critique of theories that assume literacies to be cognitive, pre-designed or intentional (Ehret, 2018;Kuby, 2017;Leander & Boldt, 2013). Extant scholarship bridging posthumanism with literacy studies has begun to unpick the issue of human intentionality in literacy practices (Hackett & Somerville, 2017;Kuby, 2017;Wargo, 2018).…”

“…This builds on the recent critique of theories that assume literacies to be cognitive, pre-designed or intentional (Ehret, 2018;Kuby, 2017;Leander & Boldt, 2013). Extant scholarship bridging posthumanism with literacy studies has begun to unpick the issue of human intentionality in literacy practices (Hackett & Somerville, 2017;Kuby, 2017;Wargo, 2018). Most notably, Kuby et al (2015) propose the Deleuzian notion of desiring rather than design as a way of thinking about what happens between children and craft materials in a writing workshop.…”

Socio-material directions for developing empirical research on children’s e-reading: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of the literature across disciplines

“…Two major approaches towards realism -the agential and critical realism -include socio-materiality in their models but place different emphasis on temporality, non-essentialism and empirical approaches to its study (Scott & Orlikowski, 2013). Socio-materialism enjoys a prominent place in the posthumanist perspective on literacy, where it is part and parcel of new materialism studies which perceive humans (including feelings or cognitive responses) and materials (and the environment in which these materials are used) as inseparable (e.g., Kuby, 2017). Given the multiple DIGITAL READING IN CHILDHOOD: MULTI-METHOD INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEW 5 theoretical viewpoints and methodological approaches to children's reading on screen, this paper deliberately considers the generative role of socio-materiality without committing to a specific theory or method of investigation.…”