Body knowledge and curriculum
Subtitle: pedagogies of touch in youth and visual culture
By: Stephanie Springgay.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781433102813
Subjects: Body, Human -- Social aspects; Body image -- Social aspects; Body image in art; Performance art; Critical pedagogy; Education -- Curricula
Description: "Body Knowledge and Curriculum examines student understandings of body knowledge in the context of creating and interrogating visual art and culture. It illustrates a six-month research study conducted in an alternative secondary school in a large urban city. During the research project, students created a number of visual art works using a diversity of material explorations as a means to think through the body as a process of exchange and as a bodied encounter." "This volume is important because it explores the ways in which youth understand the complex, textured, and often contradictory discourses of body knowledge, and seeks to intentionally create alternative pedagogical and curricular practices to ones that subscribe to a healthy body model." "Body Knowledge and Curriculum is a valuable text for courses in curriculum theory, art education, qualitative research methodologies, visual culture and pedagogies, and feminist theory. Appropriate for advanced undergraduate students, pre-service teacher education students, and graduate students, the book provides an interdisciplinary investigation into body research."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sleeping with cake and other touchable encounters; title: The fantastical body and the vulnerability of comfort; title: Corporeal cartographies : materializing space as a textual narrative process; title: Cookies for peace and a pedagogy of corporeal generosity; title: Curricular and pedagogical encounters as "other than".