Mothering a Bodied Curriculum

Emplacement, Desire, Affect

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ID19912577
AuthorsSpringgay (0000-0003-3461-0571)
EditorsStephanie Springgay, Debra Freedman (0009-0008-0578-3493)
Year2012
Publication date2012-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMothering a Bodied Curriculum (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.3138/9781442696846
OpenAlexW2687268471
Open LibraryOL34747435M
ISBN9781442696846
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited4

A bodied curriculum attends to the relational, social, and ethical implications of "being-with" other bodies differently and to the different knowledges such bodily encounters produce. It is a practice of being oriented to others, to touch, to reflect, and to dwell with others relationally. In this paper we re-conceptualize m/othering as a bodied curriculum opening up maternity to the in-between of corporeality, materiality, and difference. In doing so, we locate our arguments in the work of contemporary visual artist Diane Borsato, in order to develop the theoretical constructs of "touch" and "being-with." From here, we extend such understandings of relationality to a bodied curriculum and in particular attend to the ethical implications of teaching and learning "with" others. In our third and concluding section, we return to earlier deliberations on mothering as performative and suggest that a (post) reconceptualization of curriculum requires an openness to the un/thought and a process of becoming that is always incomplete

Curriculum · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Sociology · Feminist Theory and Gender Studies · Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Critical pedagogy · Feminist theory · Maternité · Motherhood · Pédagogie critique · Social aspects · Théorie féministe

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