Pedagogy and the politics of the body : a critical praxis / Sherry B. Shapiro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shapiro, Sherry B., 1952-

Series:

Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1153.

Garland reference library of social science. Critical education practice ; v. 16.

Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1153. Critical education practice ; v. 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical pedagogy.

Human body (Philosophy).

Feminism and education.

Dance--Study and teaching--Social aspects.

Dance.

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Garland Pub., 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Working within the relatively new perspective on the body as a zone of critical praxis, Shapiro lays the foundation for the theory and practice of a somatically oriented critical pedagogy.""

Contents:

Book Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; About the Cover Artist; PEDAGOGY AND THE POLITICS OF THE BODY; CHAPTER ONE Thinking about Thinking; Education and Critical Theory: Finding the Structures; Perspectives on Critical Pedagogy; A Way of Looking That Dances with Life; Limitations of Critical Pedagogy; Language without a Body; References; CHAPTER TWO The Body and Knowledge: Towards Relational Understanding; Knowledge as the Dialectic of Mind and Body; Historical and Philosophical Origins of the Problem; Appearance vs. Existence

Body and Society: An Inseparable Identity A Dichotomy between a Static Language and a Concrete Language of Existence; The Culture of Anti-Body: Reason and the Suppression of Desire; References; CHAPTER THREE Skinned Alive: Towards a Postmodern Pedagogy of the Body; Our Skin: The First Clue to Identity; Being-Skinned Alive; A Political Collaboration: Giving up Freedom for Compliance; The Corporeality of Language; The Body in Resistance: We Shall Not Be Moved; Cynical Reason and Kynical Resistance; References; CHAPTER FOUR Re-Remembering the Body in Critical Pedagogy

The Body in Postmodern/Feminist Thought Towards an Embodied Voice in Critical Pedagogy; Reflection One. The Body in the Hidden Curriculum; Reflection Two. Dance Class: Searching for Home; Reflection Three. Woman as Body; Reflection Four. A Prejudice towards Difference; Reflection Five. Life against Death; Reflection Six. Touching; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER FIVE The Dancer's Life: Existence and Transformation; Dialogue as Research; The Dancer as Solitary Individual: Artist or Cultural Worker?; Home for the Dancer; Body; Conclusion; References

CHAPTER SIX Reaching beyond the Familiar: Redefining Dance Education as an Emancipatory Pedagogy The Question of Meaning; Living the Image; Tangled Theories or Subverting the Tango; A Different Language for Movement; References; CHAPTER SEVEN Towards a Critical Pedagogy of the Body; The Specific, the Local, and the Body; Silent Voices: Dance Education and the Process of Liberation; Sentient Knowledge: Reclaiming a Discourse; Conclusion: Remembering the Emancipatory Self; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-58060-X

1-280-07940-1

0-203-01674-2

9780203016749

OCLC:

264435255