New Materialisms and Embodied Encounters in Education

Curiosity’s Vital Potential

Cala Coats (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

194 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-27878-3 (ISBN)

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This open access book develops a theory of “vital curiosity” as a transdisciplinary force that activates ecological flows of connection across pedagogical spaces, disciplinary bodies, curricular structures, and institutional ontologies. Educational approaches and values are currently being rethought in light of global economic and environmental crises, posing fundamental questions about desire, access, responsibility, ethics, and relationality in teaching and learning. Cala Coats explores curiosity’s vital force as a critical learning disposition and creative process that activates movement and attraction through aesthetic disruptions and embodied connections, propelled through affective ruptures and durational commitments toward affirmative complexity.

The chapters follow questions and connections that emerge from embodied encounters in schools, homes, public spaces, and the natural environment, illuminating residual patterns of colonization and commodification across bodies, territories, and knowledge. While this book is rooted in questions of schooling and education, it serves as a proposition to realize curiosity’s vital energy as an affirmative ethico-aesthetic force in any context. Drawing on new materialist and posthuman theories, the book puts forward an image of educational life, as it extends from curiosity, as a radical pedagogical practice.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

Cala Coats is Associate Professor of Art Education in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University, USA.

Acknowledgements
Prelude: Ghostly Palimpsests and Locust Transformations
Introduction: Vital Curiosity’s Disruptive, Connective, and Collective Force
Part I: Disruptive Curiosity: Unsettling Education’s Neoliberal Monoculture
1. What can GMOs teach Us about curriculum reform? Coding Pedagogical Vitality
through Neoliberal Logics
2. What did the Cafeteria Just Become? Educational Fundraising’s Affective Intensity
3. What can a Body Earn? School Fundraising as Immaterial Labor and Affective Currency
Part II: Connective Curiosity: Permeating Thresholds through Transcorporeal Movement
4. What if we Dig it Ourselves? Mapping a Transcorporeal Inquiry Across the
Composition of Clay Bodies
5. What Else Could we Create by Suspending Our Reality? Traveling Isolation’s
Intensity as Frictions of Potential
6. Is this Land Just Layers of Bodies? Mapping Spectral Flows Across Skeletal Forms
Part III: Collective Curiosity: Affirming our Ethico-Aesthetic Potential
7. What can a Body Express? Nesting as Collective Sociality
8. How Might we Live as Pollinators? The Joyful, Strange, and Vital Uncertainty of a
Pedagogical Life
9. What if we Learn This Together? Composing Collective Ecologies
through Curiosity’s Radical Interconnectedness
References
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.7.2025
Reihe/Serie	Radical Politics and Education
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
ISBN-10	1-350-27878-5 / 1350278785
ISBN-13	978-1-350-27878-3 / 9781350278783
Zustand	Neuware