Knowing Bodies, Moving Minds

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Prelude

   1. Prelude

      • Liora Bresler

      Pages 7-11

3. Cultural and Philosophical Contexts for Embodied Knowledge in Education

   1. Education and the Philosophy of the Body: Bodies of Knowledge and Knowledges of the Body

      • Michael Peters

      Pages 13-27

   2. Cognition and the Body: Perspectives from Music Education

      • Wayne Bowman

      Pages 29-50

   3. Somaesthetics and Education: Exploring the Terrain

      • Richard Shusterman

      Pages 51-60

   4. Embodied Movement Knowledge in Fitness and Exercise Education

      • Pirkko Markula

      Pages 61-76

   5. The Changing Body in Southern Africa — A Perspective from Ethnomusicology

      • Minette Mans

      Pages 77-95

   6. Frog Boy and the American Monkey: the Body in Japanese Early Schooling

      • Daniel J. Walsh

      Pages 97-109

   7. The Disappearance of the Body in Early Childhood Education

      • Joseph Tobin

      Pages 111-125

4. The Body in Educational Settings

   1. Dancing the Curriculum: Exploring the Body and Movement in Elementary Schools

      • Liora Bresler

      Pages 127-151

   2. My Body/Myself: Lessons from Dance Education

      • Susan W. Stinson

      Pages 153-167

   3. The Instructable Body: Student Bodies from Classrooms to Prisons

      • Janice Ross

      Pages 169-181

   4. The Apprenticeship of Embodied Knowledge in a Taiko Drumming Ensemble

      • Kimberly Powell

      Pages 183-195

   5. Embodied Knowledge: Possibilities and Constraints in Arts Education and Curriculum

      • Judith Davidson

      Pages 197-212

   6. Exercise: Identity Collage

      • Charles R. Garoian

      Pages 213-218

5. Back Matter

   Pages 219-225

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This book aims to define new theoretical, practical, and methodological directions in educational research centered on the role of the body in teaching and learning. Based on our phenomenological experience of the world, it draws on perspectives from arts-education and aesthetics, as well as curriculum theory, cultural anthropology and ethnomusicology. These are arenas with a rich untapped cache of experience and inquiry that can be applied to the notions of schooling, teaching and learning.
The book provides examples of state-of-the-art, empirical research on the body in a variety of educational settings. Diverse art forms, curricular settings, educational levels, and cultural traditions are selected to demonstrate the complexity and richness of embodied knowledge as they are manifested through institutional structures, disciplines, and specific practices.

• aesthetics
• anthropology
• body
• curriculum
• educational research
• ethnomusicology
• learning

• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

  Liora Bresler

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