{"product_id":"vitalizing-vocabulary-9781487559397","title":"Vitalizing Vocabulary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThinking with language as a complex practice for educators, advocates, and researchers in early childhood education is a necessary gesture for countering the anti-intellectualism that designates early childhood education as a service providing custodial care. \u003cem\u003eVitalizing Vocabulary\u003c\/em\u003e insists that early childhood education in Canada must unsettle our inherited demand for technocratic, instrumental, and accessible relations with language.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt the collision of research and practice, Nicole Land and Cristina D. Vintimilla propose that cultivating playful, speculative, inventive, accountable, and answerable relations with words, concepts, and language is a critical move toward broadening early childhood education’s intellectual and interdisciplinary horizons. The book is organized into four actions that activate pedagogical grammars: reading, writing, citing, and speaking. Each section plays with the purposes of a glossary by proposing language that we would work to er\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409170080087,"sku":"9781487559397","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487559397.jpg?v=1730505736","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/vitalizing-vocabulary-9781487559397","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}