Listening Pedagogies

Listening Pedagogies features an international collection of authors exploring listening as a core element of innovative pedagogical approaches. Serving as a collective manifesto, it advocates for pedagogies that foster generous listening in educational settings and invites readers to reflect on listening as a transdisciplinary practice.The collection spans a wide range of fields, including early childhood, sound studies, arts-based and artist-led initiatives, Indigenous perspectives, policymaking, teacher education, language teaching, and multi-generational viewpoints. The three sections of the book highlight the diversity of the contributors’ expertise and perspectives: 1) Reciprocal Listening examines how listening attentively deepens relationships not only among educators and students, but also among more-than-human entities and the environment; 2) Embodied listening explores listening as a sensing and moving practice with and within bodies; and 3) The Right to Be Heard acts as a call to advocacy for promoting local languages and expanded literacies.Championing international and interdisciplinary collaboration, this book is recommended reading for researchers and educators with interests in early childhood education, arts education, arts-based research methods, and more-than-human relations.

Mitsy KwangDae Chung is an artist, researcher, and early childhood educator. She is currently working towards her PhD in Curriculum Studies at the Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario, Canada. Her doctoral research is funded by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and an Ontario Graduate Scholarship. Her research interests focus on developing early childhood lived curricula through artistic experiences, especially drawings.Geralyn Schroeder Yu is an associate professor of art education at the University of New Mexico's Art Department. Her research and teaching focus on aesthetic inquiry and collaboration, emphasizing affective connections among children, artists, and early childhood educators. She is also co-founder of the Collaborative Teachers Institute.Jo Pollitt is a Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow with the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and Centre for People, Place & Planet at Edith Cowan University. She is creative director of #FEAS: Feminist Educators Against Sexism and author of The dancer in your hands .