Embodiment and education : exploring creatural existence / by Marjorie O'Loughlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Loughlin, Marjorie.

Series:

Philosophy and education ; v. 15.

Philosophy and education ; v. 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Human body (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

189 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer, 2006.

Summary:

Discursive accounts of the body have been prominent recently. While acknowledging the usefulness of these, the author, drawing upon specific philosophers of the body and a wide range of other theorists, focuses attention on the experiencing body which she refers to as 'creatural existence'. Thinking in terms of the creatural, she argues, can better situate human beings in their environment, thus emphasizing a kind of 'ecological notion of subjectivity', in which place-based existence is understood anew.

The educational implications of focusing on what bodies 'do' and not so much in terms of how they are socially inscribed, presents them as practicosensory totalities which should perhaps be seen as systems rather than an as mere organisms or entities. Such an articulation of creatural existence emphasizes animality, and in so doing reminds us of the centrality of the senses in all knowing and doing, including crucially, in relation to those practices which we have understood as 'work'. Multi-sensorial education is a major sub-theme of the book and the author argues persuasively for this by means of a critical analysis of the ocularcentrism that is characteristic of contemporary culture.

With its strong philosophical anchoring and its judicial use of interdisciplinary sources this book will appeal to both undergraduate and graduate students and their teachers not only in the field of philosophy of education but those from many others disciplines. It will also interest primary and secondary school teachers, curriculum designers and education policy makers.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Scopic Regime and the Ordering of the World 21

Chapter 2 Creatural Embodiment 57

Chapter 3 Working Bodies 95

Chapter 4 Emotion, Sociality and Embodiment 125

Chapter 5 Embodied Citizenship 149.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1402045875

1402045883

OCLC:

68629658

Publisher Number:

9781402045875

9781402045882