1st Edition

Pedagogy and the Politics of the Body A Critical Praxis

By Sherry Shapiro Copyright 1999
    200 Pages
    by Routledge

    202 Pages
    by Routledge

    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."

    Part 1 Pedagogy and the Politics of the Body; Chapter 1 Thinking about Thinking; Chapter 2 The Body and Knowledge: Towards Relational Understanding; Chapter 3 Skinned Alive: Towards a Postmodern Pedagogy of the Body; Chapter 4 Re-Membering the Body in Critical Pedagogy; Chapter 5 The Dancer's Life: Existence and Transformation; Chapter 6 Reaching beyond the Familiar: Redefining Dance Education as an Emancipatory Pedagogy; Chapter 7 Towards a Critical Pedagogy of the Body;

    Biography

    Sherry B. Shapiro