Neuroqueering "Literacies": Contesting Competence in a Primary Special Education Literacy Classroom

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Abstract

In this paper, I think through three Intensive Interactions from my doctoral research-creation study to neuroqueer what passes as ‘literacies’ in the special education classroom. Using Nathan Snaza’s (2019) concept of ‘animate literacies’ as “marks that circulate in various media with affective agency,” and the scholar-activist concept neurological queerness, I consider how an attention to opacity, the more-than-human, and relationality might contest the notion of ‘competence’ in special educational literacy.

Author

• David Ben Shannon, Manchester Metropolitan University
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