Teacher's Body

Embodiment, Authority, and Identity in the Academy

AvDiane P. Freedman,Martha Stoddard Holmes

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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Beskrivning

A rich and honest conversation about professors' lives and the absurdity of trying to separate the personal from the professional.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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2003-07-17
Mått:162 x 227 x 17 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:290
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791457665

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Pedagogisk teori och filosofi inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Mer om författaren

Diane P. Freedman is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire and the author or editor of several books, including most recently Millay at 100: A Critical Reappraisal. Martha Stoddard Holmes is Assistant Professor of Literature and Writing Studies at California State University at San Marcos and the author of Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword: Bodies Enter the ClassroomRosemarie Garland-Thomson Acknowledgments IntroductionDiane P. Freedman and Martha Stoddard Holmes The Teacher's BodyBetty Smith Franklin On the Desk: Dwarfism, Teaching, and the BodyScott Andrew Smith Body TeachingCortney Davis Teaching Women's Studies, E-Mailing CancerCarolyn DiPalma Johnny Mnemonic Meets the Bimbo: Feminist Pedagogy and Postmodern PerformanceDiane Price Herndl "I've Got a Blind Prof": The Place of Blindness in the AcademyRod Michalko My Body, Myself: A Quadriplegic's Perception of and Approach to TeachingRichard Radtke with James Skouge The Day the Foreign Devil Came to Class: My Teaching Body in ChinaPam Whitfield Walking on Thin Ice: The Il/legitimacy of Race and Racial Issues in the ClassroomSimone A. James Alexander Moving BodiesPetra Kuppers Dancing Revolution: A Meditation on Teaching and AgingBrenda Daly Enforcing Diversity and Living with Disability: Learning from My First Teaching YearRay Pence A "Sisterly Camaraderie" and Other Queer Friendships: A Gay Teacher Interacting with Straight StudentsJonathan Alexander Teaching Pregnant: A Case for Holistic PedagogyAmy Spangler Gerald A Vessel of Possibilities: Teaching through the Expectant BodyKimberly Wallace-Sanders At Home at Work: Confining and Defining Pregnancy in the AcademyAllison Giffen Coming Out Pedagogy: Risking Identity in Language and Literature ClassroomsBrenda Jo Brueggemann and Debra A. Moddelmog Dangerous ResponsesMichelle Cox and Katherine E. Tirabassi Afterword: My Teacher's BodyMadeleine R. Grumet EpilogueDiane P. Freedman and Martha Stoddard Holmes List of Contributors Index