VOLUME 5(3) • 2017
PRESCHOOL DISCOURSE INTERACTIONS: PLAYFUL MEANING MAKING FROM A CARNIVAL LENS
ABSTRACT. In this study, I argue that preschool play bridged the gap between authoritative and internally persuasive discourses, similar to Bakhtin’s description of the mockery of hierarchical order during the carnival festivals. Carnival misalliances and disciplinarian actions, roles, and speech st..
SPECIAL ISSUE: THE CARNIVALESQUE AND DEMOCRACY ACROSS DIVERSE CONTEMPORARY LEARNING CONTEXTS • INTRODUCTION: A ‘WRONG-HEADED’ READING OF CARNIVAL, DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION
ABSTRACT. Despite its seemingly ‘wrong-headed’ relationship, Bakhtin’s writings on carnival have much to offer democracy and education. We argue in this article for the potential of the carnivalesque to promote creative engagement with, and opposition to, contemporary systems and ideas. First, we co..
CARNIVAL, DRAMA, AND MIDDLE SCHOOL ENGLISH LEARNERS: THE LANGUAGE OF PLAY AND RESISTANCE
ABSTRACT. This article investigates how Bakhtin’s (1984) concept of carnival can be useful for understanding student behavior and language use in a drama class for English Learners (ELs) in an urban middle school newcomer program located in a school in the U.S. state of California. Drawn from a year..
THE LAUGHING TRUTH: RACE AND HUMOR IN A DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING CLASS
ABSTRACT. Drawn from a larger study that examined raced interactions in a racially diverse urban high school in the Midwest, this paper uses Mikhail Bakhtin’s carnival to explore how three young men from different races created a carnival-like atmosphere as they exchanged what they called ‘racist jo..
CARNIVAL UTTERANCE, CARNIVAL BODY, CARNIVAL PEDAGOGY: USING BAKHTIN TO WORK TOWARD A THEORY FOR CREATING LIBERATORY, INSTITUTIONAL SPACES FOR MALE STUDENT WRITERS
ABSTRACT. As much as rational, muscular ‘hegemonic masculinity’ presents itself as an exclusive standard for manly being-in-the-world, there is in fact a wide range of masculinities available, reflecting differences in race, class, ability, orientation, and nation (Connell, 1995). These forms are re..
EMBRACING THE CARNIVALESQUE: YOUNG CHILDREN’S HUMOUR AS PERFORMANCE AND COMMUNICATION
ABSTRACT. Today, in the field of early childhood education and care in the UK we do not always demonstrate a constructive attitude towards humour and laughter. We have seemingly stood by as humour and laughter have been subsumed by rhetoric that intimates their importance and value but, in reality, ..
A FEAST OF FOOLS: MEALTIMES AS DEMOCRATIC ACTS OF RESISTANCE AND COLLUSION IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
ABSTRACT. In Bakhtin’s (1986) conception of carnivalesque the body, its contents and, by extrapolation, food, play a central role in a communication genre that acts as a form of resistance. As Cresswell and Teucher (2011) explain, the body is ‘an embodied expression of community’ (p. 107) and convey..