Vitalizing Vocabulary

"""Nicole Land and Cristina D. Vintimilla's Vitalizing Vocabulary might be little in size, but it certainly is not small on ideas. This generous and thoughtful book has much to be admired. The authors invite the field of early childhood to consider reading, writing, citing, and speaking as pedagogical practices for figuring out how to live well together. Beautifully written and provocatively presented, these ideas stick with you, encouraging yet another look, another read, another thought, another wonder. Grab this book quick, pop it in your bag, and enjoy how it activates thinking, learning, and relations.""--Mindy Blaise, Vice Chancellor's Professorial Research Fellow and Director, Centre for People, Place, and Planet, Edith Cowan University, and co-founder of The Common Worlds Research Collective and #FEAS Feminist Educators Against Sexism ""Land and Vintimilla offer a vibrant and lively engagement with the language of education, current, past, and future. Moving beyond ordinary critique, the volume forges new vocabularies that imaginatively capture the richness of the work and practice of education. This is no dry academic text; the writing sparkles and the ideas explored ignite imaginaries that respond to everyday complexities as opposed to simplifying them. Located within the fault lines of Early Childhood Education, the book resonates far beyond this field and is an indispensable addition to the field of public education, in all its forms."" --Sharon Todd, Professor of Education, Maynooth University"