Pedagogy and the Politics of the Body: A Critical Praxis (Critical Education Practice)

Working within the relatively new perspective on the body as a zone of critical praxis, Shapiro lays the foundation for the theory and practice of a somatically oriented critical pedagogy."" Book Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Title......Page 5 Copyright......Page 6 Dedication......Page 7 Table of Contents......Page 8 Foreword......Page 9 Preface......Page 18 About the Cover Artist......Page 23 PEDAGOGY AND THE POLITICS OF THE BODY......Page 25 CHAPTER ONE Thinking about Thinking......Page 26 Education and Critical Theory: Finding the Structures......Page 31 Perspectives on Critical Pedagogy......Page 35 A Way of Looking That Dances with Life......Page 39 Limitations of Critical Pedagogy......Page 41 Language without a Body......Page 45 References......Page 51 CHAPTER TWO The Body and Knowledge: Towards Relational Understanding......Page 54 Knowledge as the Dialectic of Mind and Body......Page 55 Historical and Philosophical Origins of the Problem......Page 58 Appearance vs. Existence......Page 61 A Dichotomy between a Static Language and a Concrete Language of Existence......Page 64 The Culture of Anti-Body: Reason and the Suppression of Desire......Page 68 References......Page 74 CHAPTER THREE Skinned Alive: Towards a Postmodern Pedagogy of the Body......Page 76 Our Skin: The First Clue to Identity......Page 78 Being-Skinned Alive......Page 81 A Political Collaboration: Giving up Freedom for Compliance......Page 83 The Corporeality of Language......Page 86 The Body in Resistance: We Shall Not Be Moved......Page 89 Cynical Reason and Kynical Resistance......Page 92 References......Page 97 The Body in Postmodern/Feminist Thought......Page 100 Towards an Embodied Voice in Critical Pedagogy......Page 103 Reflection One. The Body in the Hidden Curriculum......Page 106 Reflection Two. Dance Class: Searching for Home......Page 110 Reflection Three. Woman as Body......Page 114 Reflection Four. A Prejudice towards Difference......Page 117 Reflection Five. Life against Death......Page 119 Reflection Six. Touching......Page 121 Conclusion......Page 125 References......Page 126 Dialogue as Research......Page 129 The Dancer as Solitary Individual: Artist or Cultural Worker?......Page 131 Home for the Dancer......Page 136 Body......Page 140 Conclusion......Page 143 References......Page 146 The Question of Meaning......Page 148 Living the Image......Page 152 Tangled Theories or Subverting the Tango......Page 154 A Different Language for Movement......Page 158 References......Page 159 CHAPTER SEVEN Towards a Critical Pedagogy of the Body......Page 162 The Specific, the Local, and the Body......Page 166 Silent Voices: Dance Education and the Process of Liberation......Page 171 Sentient Knowledge: Reclaiming a Discourse......Page 180 Conclusion: Remembering the Emancipatory Self......Page 182 References......Page 185 Index......Page 189 Having been a dancer for many years, Shapiro turned to the academic study of the body as it intersects questions of pedagogy, art, and social change. She lays a foundation for a theory and practice of a somatically-orientated critical pedagogy by exploring what it might mean to approach questions of identity, justice, moral responsibility, ideological conformity, and resistance through engaging our own body experiences and memories. Martin Heidegger (1968) brings our attention to the dialectical relationship between "how we think" and "how we live".