Body knowledge and curriculum : pedagogies of touch in youth and visual culture /
"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, studen...
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New York :
Peter Lang,
©2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Rita Irwin
- Introduction : Red threats of entanglement : Body knowledge ; Red threads of entanglement: performing, writing and reading Body knowledge and curriculum ; The research site ; A bodied curriculum ; The body of the bood: chapter descriptions
- 1. Sleeping with cake and other touchable encounters: feminist theories of touch and inter-embodiment : Touching 1000 people and sleeping with cake: theories of touch and inter-embodiment ; Spac(e)ing: bodied encounters as difference ; A bodied curriculum ; An ethics of embodiment as 'being-with" ; A/r/tography : Contiguity and living inquiry ; Openings, metaphor and metonymy, and reverberations ; Excess-- The fantastical body and the vulnerability of comfort: alternative models for understanding body image : Never stop thinking ; Body image theories ; The fantastical body ; "Un/attainable comfort": student understandings of body image ; The "being-with" of community ; Skin and a becoming body ; Pedagogies of excess
- Corporeal cartographies: materializing space as a textual narrative process : Un/folding boxes: the agency of mapping as un/folding ; Cartographical "other thans" ; Interrupting curriculum cartographies
- Cookies for peace and a pedagogy of corporeal generosity : Cyber touching ; Uncovering the unexpected in an email exchange ; Cupcake crumbs and seeds: the "thingness" of things ; The gift and giving ; Cookies for peace and a pedagogy of corporeal generosity
- Teaching and learning through touch : Imag(e)ining embodied resistance: youth, art, and activism.