Educational Embodiments: Life Writing the Body (Research in Life Writing and Education)

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