Cathy Burnett|Guy Merchant|Michelle M. Neumann
Closing the gap? Overcoming limitations in sociomaterial accounts of early literacy
Sheffield Hallam University|Griffith University
article uses sociomaterial perspective explore deficit views young childrens language literacy sustained challenged foregrounding notion multiplicity considers diverse sociomaterial relations work uphold particular kinds practice particular arrangements bodies things others relations may interfere interface different ways sometimes sustaining also potentially disrupting deficit discourses practices sociomaterial perspective illustrated short vignette study children touchscreen tablets early years setting initial analysis followed series alternate tentative tracings kinds relations play moments article contributes debates social inequality troubling certainties generated though deficit models childrens literacy whilst working proactively envision produce alternate possibilities foreground potentialities generated people materials assemble together