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The Palgrave Handbook of Embodiment and Learning

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Draws on an international selection of contributors to understand embodied pedagogical engagement

  • Highlights the range of pedagogical relationships and interactions that can inhibit or encourage learning

  • Opens up the concept of ‘tact’ for a wider audience

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Table of contents (34 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-21
    2. Promoting Embodiment Through Education in the Anthropocene

      • Renaud Hétier, Nathanaël Wallenhorst
      Pages 23-37
    3. Embodiment Through Mimetic Learning

      • Christoph Wulf
      Pages 39-59
    4. Building Blocks of a Historical Overview of ‘Tacit Knowledge’

      • Kristina Brümmer, Thomas Alkemeyer, Robert Mitchell
      Pages 75-90
  3. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-131
    2. Knowledge of Pathos

      • Shoko Suzuki
      Pages 133-144
    3. Gestures in the Classroom

      • Regula Fankhauser, Angela Kaspar
      Pages 163-177
    4. Vulnerability: A Basic Concept of Pedagogical Anthropology

      • Daniel Burghardt, Jörg Zirfas
      Pages 179-192
  4. Part III

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-211
    2. The Performativity of Learning

      • Birgit Althans
      Pages 213-228
    3. The Embodiment of Gender in Childhood

      • Anja Tervooren
      Pages 245-257

About this book

This handbook provides an important overview of corporeality, embodiment and learning in education from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Situating the body at the centre of educational practice, the editors and contributors introduce the concept of ‘tact’ as a practical corporeal language. The chapters provide a spectrum of historical, conceptual, empirical and practical educational approaches for embodied pedagogical engagement. Tact and embodied knowledge form a significant component of a teacher’s capability and professionalism: interacting with students, a pedagogue responds to them tactfully, emotionally, sensitively, and reflectively searching for the right thing to do, the right words to say, improvising in aural, linguistic, spatial, and visual way that are as restrained as they are enabled by the body. This handbook questions the familiar and established essentialist and naturalist view of the body to allow new perspectives on how corporeality affects learners. It will be of interest to scholars in education and philosophy as well as those researching in across social sciences.


Keywords

  • corporeality
  • pedagogical practice
  • pedagogical teact
  • pedagogical relationships
  • pedagogical ambiguity
  • bildung

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Teaching and Learning (Ämnesdidaktik), Stockholms universitet, Stockholm, Sweden

    Anja Kraus

  • Anthropology and Education, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Christoph Wulf

About the editors

Anja Kraus is Professor of Arts and Culture Education at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research focuses on corporeality in educational contexts; phenomenological, ethnographical and theoretical research on practices and arts education amongst other topics, and she has published widely in these areas.

 

Christoph Wulf is Professor of Anthropology and Education at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, where he is cofounder of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Historical Anthropology. He is author, co-author, or editor of over one hundred books and has been translated extensively in 20 languages. He is currently serving as Vice-President of the German Commission for UNESCO.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Embodiment and Learning

  • Editors: Anja Kraus, Christoph Wulf

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93001-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93000-4Published: 07 December 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93003-5Due: 21 December 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-93001-1Published: 06 December 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 598

  • Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Educational Philosophy, Philosophy of Education, Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Education

Buying options

eBook USD 189.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • ISBN: 978-3-030-93001-1
  • Instant PDF download
  • Readable on all devices
  • Own it forever
  • Exclusive offer for individuals only
  • Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout
Hardcover Book USD 249.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)