Educational Embodiments: Life Writing the Body focuses on life writing that centers body politics and embodiment in educational spaces. The aim of the book is to consider, examine, and voice the lived, fleshy, textured body as a site of politics, a site of embodied educative experiences, and a site of learning and teaching. Researchers and educators alike have long championed the disembodied researcher and teacher as the ideal collectors and vehicles for knowledge production and emphasized the intellect over the body in pedagogies, analyses, and fieldwork. We are always enfleshed in diverse ways in various locales, always changing, moving, becoming, aging, singing, aching, growing, becoming marred and scarred and stronger and bigger, and smaller again. We are embodied with others, interacting with other body-mind-souls that awaken interrelational proxemics and kinesthetic experiences.
Educational Embodiments offers perspectives from which scholars, teachers, and students can draw to support their work. The 14 chapters in this collection attend to national, international, and local concerns, include varied theoretical and methodological approaches, and reflect a range of class, ethnic, and racial heritages. Chapters consider practical, theoretical, ethical, and educational issues. The authors include established and emerging scholars. The book sparks conversation, debate, and reflection and is a valuable resource that inspires scholarship about how embodied intersections shape the life-writing inquiry process.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Embodied Educational Entanglements: An Introduction to Educational Embodiments: Life Writing the Body; Lucy E. Bailey and KaaVonia Hinton
Chapter 1. Abusing Power, Abusing Women: My Embodied Experience of Gendered Harassment in the Higher Education Workplace; Lindsey Phillips Abernathy
Chapter 2. My Aging Body as Pedagogy: Learning with My Body Self in a Doctoral Program; Joan Lea Brown
Chapter 3. Illuminating the Embodied Educative Experiences of Primary Lymphedema as an Emic Researcher; Deborah E. Crow-Petree
Chapter 4. Montessori and Education with Consciousness of the Child’s Body; Gerald L. Gutek
Chapter 5. I Got It from My Mama: An Autoethnography of Black Women Teachers’ Heritage of Body Aesthetics as Resistance; Asia Thomas-Uzomba
Chapter 6. Every Child a Tooth; Jessica Turcat
Chapter 7. Embodied Histories and Traditions: Reading Hindu Sacred Texts; Prabha Jerrybandan
Chapter 8. Living in a Fat Body: A Narrative of a Fat Trans Teacher; Megan River Ruby
Chapter 9. Educational Navigations: A Dialogue about the Embodied Realities of Chronic Illness; A.J. Tierney
Chapter 10. Unmastering Reading: Decolonizing Ourselves, Our Texts, and Our Criticism; Mrinalini Greedharry
Chapter 11. Bodies in the Classroom: Claiming Embodied Space, Subjectivity, and Solidarity as Classroom Teachers; Erica Warren and Hannah Edber
Chapter 12. Engaging ‘Hap’ and Hope: A Creative Inquiry of Self-care, Listening Through and With the Body; Alison L. Black
Chapter 13. Embodied Litanies of Survival, Hush Harbors, and Kitchen Table Talks; Reanae McNeal
Chapter 14. Recipes of Healing Embodying Rituals Toward an Endarkened Feminist Epistemology: Exploring the Role of Artmaking, Music, and Plant Care in Debriefing the Body; Easton James Davis
