EMBODIMENT AND EDUCATION

• Main Author: O'LOUGHLIN, MARJORIE (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Philosophy and Education, 15
• Subjects: Education.; Philosophy.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Higher education.; Education > Philosophy.; Higher Education.; Educational Philosophy.; Education, general.; Philosophy, general.; Philosophy of Education.

Discursive accounts of the body have been prominent recently. While acknowledging the usefulness of these, the author, drawing upon specific philosophers of the body and a wide range of other theorists, focuses attention on the experiencing body - which she refers to as 'creatural existence’. T...

Table of Contents:

• The Scopic Regime and the Ordering of the World
• Creatural Embodiment
• Working Bodies
• Emotion, Sociality and Embodiment
• Embodied Citizenship.