| This volume thus seeks to more fully understand the meaning and implications of emancipatory "body politics" for a radical theory and practice of education. It addresses the question of the body in the context of the struggle for a more democratic, plural and quitable culture. Specifically, the book focuses on these issues: Why, and in what ways, has the body emerged as a vital and resonant focus or site for a self- and socially reflexive politics? What does a critical or emancipatory pedagogy in which the body/subject is significant mean, in terms of both educational theory and practice? In what ways should body politics and pedagogy be seen as a place in which both normative/oppressive and emancipatory processes are simultaneously at work? And, How and in what ways does body politics and pedagogy connect to the sense of possibility, hope and joy? |
