Curriculum and the Cultural Body

The Editors: Stephanie Springgay is an Assistant Professor of Art Education and Women’s Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She received her Ph.D. in curriculum studies and art education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her research and artistic explorations focus on issues of relationality and an ethics of embodiment. In addition, as a multidisciplinary artist working with installation and video-based art, she investigates the relationship between artistic practices and methodologies of educational research through a/r/tography.Debra Freedman is an Associate Professor at the Pennsylvania State University in the department of Educational Policy Studies. She received her Ph.D. in curriculum studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching interests include curriculum theory, cultural studies, and teacher education.

«Stephanie Springgay and Debra Freedman have created an engaging text that is both introspective and performative. The authors challenge our assumptions about embodiment by suggesting fresh ways to understand the location and (dis)location of the body in contemporary culture. This brilliant text moves the field beyond the pedagogical discussions and curriculum debates of recent decades. The diverse authors assembled in this collection provide a richly textured investigation of complex notions of the body that inspires aesthetic sensibilities and demands heartfelt responses.» (Patrick Slattery, Professor and Regents Scholar, Texas A&M University)«This bold and wonderfully diverse collection of essays challenges us to re-examine and re-conceptualize embodiment. This book points to the fluidity of boundaries in very concrete and often provocative ways. Embodied difference is given an especially noteworthy and original treatment in this collection, making this book a must-read for those who take curriculum and pedagogy seriously, or indeed for any body.» (Sandra Weber, Professor of Education, Concordia University, Montreal)

• Contents: Madeleine Grumet: Foreword – Stephanie Springgay/Debra Freedman: Introduction: On Touching and a Bodied Curriculum – Yvonne Gaudelius/Charles Garoian: Performing Embodiment: Pedagogical Intersections of Art, Technology, and the Body – John A. Weaver/Tara D. Britt: Experiencing Life Through the Body of Film: The Convergence of Phenomenology and Cultural Curriculum Studies – Debra Freedman/Iris Striedieck/Leonard Shurin: Not Without My Body: Embodied Learning With/In the Online Learning Environment – Karen Keifer-Boyd: Body Interfaces in Curriculum – Dalene M. Swanson: Silent Voices, Silent Bodies: Difference and Disadvantage in Schooling Contexts – Daniel T. Barney: Understandings and Communication Through Dress: Sartorial Inquiry in a Secondary Art Class – Donal O’Donoghue: Teaching Bodies Who Teach: Men’s Bodies and the Reconstruction of Male Teacher Identity in Ireland – Julie Garlen Maudlin: Life Goes On: Disability, Curriculum, and Popular Culture – Aisha S. Durham/Jillian M. Báez: A Tail of Two Women: Exploring the Contours of Difference in Popular Culture – Diane Watt: Disrupting Mass Media as Curriculum: Opening to Stories of Veiling – Cris Mayo: Teaching Against Homophobia Without Teaching the Subject – Natalie Jolly: Cesarean, Celebrity and Childbirth: Students Encounter Modern Birth and the Question of Female Embodiment – Stephanie Springgay: Intimacy in the Curriculum of Janine Antoni – Barbara Bickel: Embodying Exile: Performing the «Curricular Body» – James Sanders: Breathing Curiously: Queering the Curriculum Body.