Sharing Breath: Embodied Learning and Decolonization (OPEL) - Softcover

 
9781771991919: Sharing Breath: Embodied Learning and Decolonization (OPEL)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1771991917 ISBN 13: 9781771991919
Publisher: Athabasca University Press, 2018

Synopsis

The field of embodiment theorizes bodies as knowledgeable in ways that include but are not solely cognitive. The contributors to this collection suggest developing embodied ways of teaching, learning, and knowing through embodied experiences such as yoga, mindfulness, illness, and trauma. Although the contributors challenge Western educational frameworks from within and beyond academic settings, they also acknowledge and draw attention to the incommensurability between decolonization and aspects of social justice projects in education. By addressing this tension ethically and deliberately, the contributors engage thoughtfully with decolonization and make a substantial, and sometimes unsettling, contribution to critical studies in education.

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About the Author

Sheila Batacharya completed her doctoral studies in education at the University of Toronto. Her scholarship in embodiment and embodied learning is fueled by her experiences teaching yoga and her curiosity and concern with articulating and practicing attunement to social-sentient embodied experiences in formal education and community contexts.

Yuk-Lin Renita Wong is an associate professor at the School of Social Work at York University. Her scholarship and teaching aim at deconstructing the colonial, racial, and gender power relations in the knowledge production and discursive practices of social work, and in re-centering marginalized ways of knowing and being.

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Publisher
Athabasca University Press
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1771991917
ISBN 13 
9781771991919
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
408
Editor
Batacharya Sheila, Wong Yuk-Lin Renita