ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter is to illustrate how the author and a second grade teacher are disrupting and reimagining early literacy research by living out poststructural ideas of rhizomes and posthumanist ideas of intra-activity not only as researchers (methodology) but also as teachers (pedagogy). The author shares three examples from Writers’ Studio that demonstrate thinking with these theoretical concepts: (1) writing ideas from Jake and the dragon, (2) Gigi’s rhizomatic writing process, and (3) three tries to make marionette puppets. The author invites readers to think about how post-theories might help us all to see something new in children’s literacies.
