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List of contents
Foreword by Susan Stinson
Introduction by Jennifer Leigh
Chapter 1 Embodiment as embodiment of by Paul Bowman
Ben Spatz in conversation with Paul Bowman: Words, pictures, bodies
Chapter 2 Posthuman embodiment: On the functions of things in embodiment processes by Grit Höppner
Adrian Skilbeck in conversation with Grit Höppner
Chapter 3 Letters to an empty room by Ben Spatz
Mike Poltorak in conversation with Ben Spatz: Resonances in an empty room
Chapter 4 Seriousness, voice and ventriloquism: Making ourselves intelligible in higher education by Adrian Skilbeck
Richard Bailey in conversation with Adrian Skilbeck: Making ourselves intelligible in higher education
Chapter 5 Displacing the one: Dislocated thinking in higher education by Catherine Herring and Paul Standish
Robb Lindgren and Sara Price in conversation with Catherine Herring and Paul Standish
Chapter 6 The embodied academic: Body work in teacher education by Nicole Brown
Kimber Andrews in conversation with Nicole Brown: Inhabiting scholarship: Embodiment in teacher education
Chapter 7 Under this weight: Embodiment in dance choreography by Angela Pickard
Paul Bowman in conversation with Angela Pickard
Chapter 8 Embodied professional early childhood education and care teaching practices by Eva Mikuska and Sandra Lyndon
Catherine Herring and Paul Standish in conversation with Eva Mikuska and Sandra Lyndon
Chapter 9 Finding the dance in the everyday: A flesh and bones approach to studying embodiment by Kimber Andrews
Angela Pickard in conversation with Kimber Andrews
Chapter 10 Researching embodied sport and movement cultures: Theoretical and methodological considerations by Ian Wellard
Nicole Brown in conversation with Ian Wellard
Chapter 11 Embodied practice and academic embodied identity by Jennifer Leigh
Ian Wellard in conversation with Jennifer Leigh
Chapter 12 Embodiment and technology-enhanced learning environments: Cultivating a new community of design research by Robb Lindgren and Sara Price
Grit Höppner in conversation with Robb Lindgren and Sara Piece: Embodiment as a methodological tool of technology-based learning processes in schools
Chapter 13 Embodied reflexivity: Sharing and transformation in teaching visual anthropology by Mike Poltorak
Jennifer Leigh in conversation with Mike Poltorak
Chapter 14 Being there: Exploring an embodied-relational approach to understanding children’s physical activity by Richard Bailey
Eva Mikuska and Sandra Lyndon in conversation with Richard Bailey: A conversational piece
Concluding thoughts by Jennifer Leigh
About the author
Jennifer Leigh is Lecturer in Higher Education and Academic Practice at the Centre for Study of Higher Education, University of Kent.
Summary
Conversations on Embodiment brings a cohesive understanding to congruent approaches by drawing on discussions between academics to explore how they have used embodiment in their work.
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"Dr Jennifer Leigh’s training in body-mind-movement work and her multi-disciplinary background in higher education and academic practice are put into excellent service in this edited collection. In bringing together a wide range of pedagogic, practice-based and performative understandings of embodiment, the book provides a theoretical and practical grounding for anyone wanting to take the pulse of the contested state of embodiment studies across a wide range of higher education disciplines. Written as a series of reflexive conversations, this book provides an accessible introduction to embodiment as a living, breathing, worldly engagement which breaks down the tired binary of theory/practice."
Carol A. Taylor, Professor of Higher Education and Gender, University of Bath.
"Creating a sense of theater-in-the-round to contemplate embodiment from a range of disciplines and perspectives, this volume will engage and compel its reading audience, with vibrant, expansive, dialogical, and timely ideas."
Liora Bresler, PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Professor in the College of Education, Curriculum and Instruction, and the School of Art and Design.
