New Materialisms and Embodied Encounters in Education

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

• AcknowledgementsPrelude: Ghostly Palimpsests and Locust TransformationsIntroduction: Vital Curiosity’s Disruptive, Connective, and Collective ForcePart 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 Movement4. 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

This book makes an important contribution to the fields of art education and curriculum studies. It draws upon cutting edge theory in art education and curriculum through the use of highly readable narratives articulating alternative images and approaches to curriculum and pedagogy.