| The Teacher's Body: Embodiment, Authority, and Identity in the Academy Contributor(s): Freedman, Diane P. (Editor), Holmes, Martha Stoddard (Editor), Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0791457664 ISBN-13: 9780791457665 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2003 Annotation: These highly personal essays from a range of academic settings explore the palpable moments of discomfort, disempowerment, and/or enlightenment that emerge when we discard the fiction that the teacher has no body. Visible and/or invisible, the body can transform both the teacher's experience and classroom dynamics. When students think the teacher's body is clearly marked by ethnicity, race, disability, size, gender, sexuality, illness, age, pregnancy, class, linguistic and geographic origins, or some combination of these, both the mode and the content of education can change. Other, less visible aspects of a teacher's body, such as depression or a history of sexual assault, can have an equally powerful impact on how we teach and learn. The collection anatomizes these moments of embodied pedagogy as unexpected teaching opportunities and examines their apparent impact on teacher-student educational dynamics of power, authority, desire, friendship, open-mindedness, and resistance. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Higher - Social Science | Essays |
| Dewey: 378.12 |
| LCCN: 2003040472 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.38" W x 8.92" (0.85 lbs) 290 pages |
