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.
Author(s): Sherry Shapiro
Edition: 1
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 208
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
