ABSTRACT
This chapter accounts for the theoretical development of the field of early childhood literacy and pays particular attention to the development of new materialist perspectives on language and literacy in the early years. The chapter accounts for idealist and materialist notions of language and claims, with support from Elizabeth Grosz’s (2017) reading of the Stoics and the notion of Lekta, and argues for the necessity of an entwinement of idealism and materialism in early childhood literacy scholarship.
