The Body in Professional Practice, Learning and Education
Body/Practice
Editors: Green, Bill, Hopwood, Nick (Eds.)
Free Preview- First comprehensive conceptual guide to exploring questions of the body in professional practice
- Charts significant new territory while drawing on a rich and well-developed series of frameworks relating to bodies and embodiment
- Provides a powerful platform for rethinking what it means to be, learn, and practise as a professional
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- About this book
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The body matters, in practice. How then might we think about the body in our work in and on professional practice, learning and education? What value is there in realising and articulating the notion of the professional practitioner as crucially embodied? Beyond that, what of conceiving of the professional practice field itself as a living corporate body? How is the body implicated in understanding and researching professional practice, learning and education?
Body/Practice is an extensive volume dedicated to exploring these and related questions, philosophically and empirically. It constitutes a rare but much needed reframing of scholarship relating to professional practice and its relation with professional learning and professional education more generally. It takes bodies seriously, developing theoretical frameworks, offering detailed analyses from empirical studies, and opening up questions of representation.
The book is organized into four parts: I. ‘Introducing the Body in Professional Practice, Learning and Education’; II. ‘Thinking with the Body in Professional Practice’; III. ‘The Body in Question in Health Professional Education and Practice’; IV. ‘Concluding Reflections’. It brings together researchers from a range of disciplinary and professional practice fields, including particular reference to Health and Education. Across fifteen chapters, the authors explore a broad range of issues and challenges with regard to corporeality, practice theory and philosophy, and professional education, providing an innovative, coherent and richly informed account of what it means to bring the body back in, with regard to professional education and beyond.
- Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Introduction: Body/Practice?
Pages 3-14
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The Body in Professional Practice, Learning and Education: A Question of Corporeality
Pages 15-33
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Sustaining the Change Agent: Bringing the Body into Language in Professional Practice
Pages 37-52
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Relational Geometries of the Body: Doing Ethnographic Fieldwork
Pages 53-69
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Pages 71-88
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Body in Professional Practice, Learning and Education
- Book Subtitle
- Body/Practice
- Editors
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- Bill Green
- Nick Hopwood
- Series Title
- Professional and Practice-based Learning
- Series Volume
- 11
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-00140-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-00140-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-00139-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-37517-5
- Series ISSN
- 2210-5549
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 265
- Number of Illustrations
- 9 b/w illustrations
- Topics
