ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author analyzes Alexi stories through insights offered by researchers working in contemporary relational psychoanalysis, to highlight some of the implicit ways of affecting and being affected in the playroom. Of course, it is not news to educators that there are multiple ways of learning and of knowing that are not primarily focused on words. For the past twenty years, in classrooms across America, walls that used to be covered with children's artwork have been papered over with charts designed to make learning methods explicit and spell out learning standards. In an essay written shortly before her death, the French sociologist and early childhood researcher Liane Mozere reflected on how her long friendship and collaborations with Guattari and Deleuze impacted her thinking about learning. Speaking of early childhood education, Mozere argues that what the people look for are those times when what happens is well-suited to those who are involved.
