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The responses of 63 adult literacy educators to an online survey suggest that professional development and training to meet the diverse contexts and practices in the field must attend to the embedded inequalities in access to quality literacy education for low income learners, and the marginalization of adult literacy work, which persists even as successive governments hail the importance of literacy education for citizenship and employment.

The symposium discusses and compares abandoned places of adult education in Canada and Germany. These are physical (and intellectual) spaces that have been abandoned or moved, or changed its use

The authors distinguish between women-targeted and women-positive programs, citing examples of unsuccessful education programs in South Africa that were targeted at women. They question the educational and political aims of these initiatives and suggest that women-positive programs foreground gender within a broader context of transformation involving both men and women.

Introduction / by Kelleen Toohey, Suzanne Smythe, Diane Dagenais and Magali Forte (coeditors) -- 1. Making and unmaking literacy desirings: Pedagogical matters of concern from Writers' Studio / by Tara Gutshall Rucker and Candace R. Kuby -- 2. Practising place-thought and engaging in critical place inquiry in a public park: Listening, letting go, and unsettling our writing pedagogies / by Michelle A. Honeyford and Jennifer Watt -- 3. Becoming posthuman: Bodies, affect, earth at the school garden / by Saskia Van Viegen -- 4. Lekta and literacy in early childhood education: Entwinements of idealism and materialism / by Liselott Mariett Olsson -- 5. Rethinking causality through children's literacies / by Jacqueline Barreiro -- 6. A rhizomatic case analysis of instructional coaching as becoming / by Brandon Sherman, Mari Haneda and Annela Teemant -- 7. 'This documentary actually makes Welland look good': Exploring posthumanism in a high school documentary film project / by Amélie Lemieux and Jennifer Rowsell -- 8. Affect theory as a lens on teacher thinking in adult language classrooms / by Monica Waterhouse -- 9. The problem and potential of representation: Being and becoming / by Margaret MacDonald, Cher Hill and Nathalie Sinclair -- 10. Exploring affect in stop frame animation / by Gabriele Budach, Dimitri Efremov, Daniela Loghin and Gohar Sharoyan -- List of Contributors -- Index.

Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Getting Here -- The Book: Land, Place, Bodies -- The Chapters -- References -- 1. Making and Unmaking Literacy Desirings: Pedagogical Matters of Concern from Writers' Studio -- Piggy Scaling the Bookshelf: A Stop Motion Animation -- Pedagogical Matters of Concern: Is It Okay for Students to Not Finish a Piece of Writing? -- Unmaking and Making Literacy Desiring(s): Literacies as Relational Desirings -- Trouble Land: A Game of Kings and Dungeons -- Pedagogical Matters of Concern: Does One Ever Write Alone? -- Unmaking and Making Literacy Desiring(s): Subjectivity as and -- and -- Cat versus Fox: Puppets Travelling Home -- Pedagogical Matters of Concern: What if We Saw Writing as Unfinished Becoming(s)? -- Unmaking and Making Literacy Desiring(s): Ethico-ontoEpistemologies of Literacies -- Our Writing -- (Un) -- Notes -- References -- 2. Practising Place-Thought and Engaging in Critical Place Inquiry in a Public Park: Listening, Letting Go, and Unsettling Our Writing Pedagogies -- (Un)settling Acknowledgements: Locating Ourselves -- Critical Place Inquiry: Context and Questions of a Place-Thought Experiment -- Learning to Listen and Notice Differently -- Learning to Let Go and Write Wild -- Unsettling Practices: Writing/Living/Becoming in a Relational Ethics of Accountability to People and Place -- Notes -- References -- 3. Becoming Posthuman: Bodies, Affect, and Earth in the School Garden -- Thinking Beyond Language -- Posthuman Subjectivity and Affective Intensities -- Creating and Documenting the Garden -- Reflections -- Concluding Thoughts -- Notes -- References -- 4. Lekta and Literacy in Early Childhood Education: Entwinements of Idealism and Materialism.