Todd, Sharon
(2022)
Teaching as bodily enactment: relational formations of touch and movement.
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 43 (5).
pp. 737-748.
ISSN 0159-6306
Abstract
This paper explores a common representational form of teaching that has reappeared in current educational theory: the figure of the teacher as one who points. Informed by Nicolas Bourriaud’s notion of relational aesthetics I outline how the form of pointing is actually a relational formation that invites students into certain relationships with objects of study as well as with teachers themselves. Focusing on relational encounters as central to teaching, I argue in the second part of the paper that movement and the dynamics of touch are key to reframing teaching as bodily enactment. Drawing on the work of Erin Manning, I explore how movement and touch are generative of educational relations and how they enable students and teacher to co-create educational spaces together. Teaching as bodily enactment enables us to understand how physical bodies matter in and to our educational practices as well as our representations of them.
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Article
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| Additional Information: |
Cite as: Todd, S. 2022, "Teaching as bodily enactment: relational formations of touch and movement", Discourse (Abingdon, England), vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 737-748. |
| Keywords: |
Teaching; aesthetics; bodies; relations; movement; touch; Bourriaud; Manning; encounter; representation; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Education |
| Item ID: |
17579 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2021.1978698 |
| Depositing User: |
Prof. Sharon Todd
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| Date Deposited: |
21 Sep 2023 08:19 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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