""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.
Edited by:
Jennifer Leigh
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 470g
ISBN: 9780367585471
ISBN 10: 0367585472
Series: Routledge Research in Higher Education
Pages: 242
Publication Date: 30 June 2020
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
Jennifer Leigh is Lecturer in Higher Education and Academic Practice at the Centre for Study of Higher Education, University of Kent.
Reviews for Conversations on Embodiment Across Higher Education: Teaching, Practice and Research
"""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."
