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Title: | The body made flesh: embodied learning and the corporeal device |
Authors: | Evans, John Davies, Brian Rich, Emma |
Keywords: | ‘The body’ Sociology Biology Nature Culture Education Disorder |
Issue Date: | 2009 |
Publisher: | © Taylor & Francis |
Citation: | EVANS, J., DAVIES, B. and RICH, E., 2009. The body made flesh: embodied learning and the corporeal device. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 30(4), pp.391-406. |
Abstract: | Over recent years there has been growing appreciation of the body’s corporeal
significance in how children learn in educational settings. ‘The body’ has been
conceptualised from a variety of perspectives that we characterise as: ’the body
without flesh’, ‘the body with fleshy feelings’ and ‘the body made flesh’. We reflect
on these perspectives with reference to the model of embodied action used in our
ongoing research on relationships between education and disordered bodies,
outlining what they might differently offer in terms of understanding body/mind/
culture relationships. We suggest that Basil Bernstein’s notion of the ‘pedagogic
device’, when reworked around the concept of a ‘corporeal device’, may provide
one way of better conceptualising such relationships avoiding some of the fault
lines and dualistic thinking inherent in other perspectives. If, as sociologists or
school practitioners, we are to address the agency of ‘the body’ in cultural
reproduction and better understand how the corporeal realities of children
influence their sense of position, value and self, then we will need to deal with
both the ‘physical’ and the ‘phenomenal’ universes of discourse, and the ‘somatic
mediations’ of lived experience. This will mean giving as much attention to the
biological dimensions of embodiment as its discursive representation currently
receives. |
Description: | This item is Closed Access. |
Version: | Closed access |
DOI: | 10.1080/01425690902954588 |
URI: | https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/15280 |
Publisher Link: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01425690902954588 |
ISSN: | 0142-5692 |
Appears in Collections: | Closed Access (Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences)
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