Conversations on Embodiment Across Higher Education - Teaching, Practice and Research

"Embodiment" is a concept that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. However, it is a contested term, and the literature is fragmented, particularly within Higher Education. This has resulted in silos of work that are not easily able to draw on previous or related knowledge in order to support and progress understanding. Conversations on Embodiment Across Higher Education brings a cohesive understanding to congruent approaches by drawing on discussions between academics to explore how they have used embodiment in their work.

This book brings academics from fields including dance, drama, education, anthropology, early years, sport, sociology and philosophy together, to begin conversations on how their understandings of embodiment have impacted on their teaching, practice and research. Each chapter explores an aspect of embodiment according to a particular disciplinary or theoretical perspective, and begins a discussion with a contributor with another viewpoint.

This book will appeal to academics, researchers and postgraduate students from a diverse range of disciplinary areas, as evidenced by the backgrounds of the contributors. It will be of particular interest to those in the fields of education, sociology, anthropology, dance and drama as well as other movement or body-orientated professionals who are interested in the ideas of embodiment.¿

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Leigh, Jennifer (University of Kent Leigh
• Assisted by: Jennifer Leigh (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780367585471
• ISBN: 978-0-367-58547-1
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Routledge Research in Higher Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous