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Marjorie (University Of Sydney) O'Loughlin - Embodiment and Education - 9781402045875 - V9781402045875
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Embodiment and Education

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Description for Embodiment and Education Hardback. 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'. Series: Philosophy and Education. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.

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’. Thinking in terms of the creatural, she argues, can better situate human beings in their environment, thus emphasizing a kind of 'ecological notion of subjectivity’, in which place-based existence is understood anew.

The educational implications of focusing on what bodies 'do' and not so much in terms of how they are socially inscribed, presents ... Read more

With its strong philosophical anchoring and its judicial use of interdisciplinary sources this book will appeal to both undergraduate and graduate students and their teachers not only in the field of philosophy of education but those from many others disciplines. It will also interest primary and secondary school teachers, curriculum designers and education policy makers.

‘Marjorie O'Loughlin shows in this book that embodiment ought to be central to human hopes to be whole persons, who are not merely productive but who are also expressive of our potentiality. Her 'creatural existence' grounds this in our fleshly selves, and she explores it through the emotions, through work, and throughcitizenship.                                                                                                                     Her achievement here is profound: in one book, we find an interdisciplinary account of the evidence for creatural existence, presented accessibly in first-person philosophical narrative, based mainly on Merleau-Ponty.                                              If bodies matter more than ever in everyday life, educators should start with our fleshly selves and move creatively forward. O'Loughlin points out the direction...and pushes us persuasively: you can feel the nudge!'

David Beckett, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne

 

 

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
Series
Philosophy and Education
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402045875
SKU
V9781402045875
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Reviews for Embodiment and Education
"The author's achievement here is profound: in one book, we find an interdisciplinary account of the evidence for creatural existence, presented accessibly in first-person philosophical narrative, based mainly on Merleau-Ponty. If bodies matter more than ever in everyday life, educators should start with our fleshly selves and move creatively forward. O'Loughlin points out the direction[...]and pushes us persuasively: you can ... Read more

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