Embodied wisdom: Meditations on memoir and education by Alison
Pryer, Ph.D. explores the interconnectedness of body, mind and
spirit within diverse educational contexts. Evocative, sensual
prose carries the reader on a journey through the personal and the
remembered in a layered series of autobiographical essays, each one
affording deeper insights into the ways in which the inner,
emotional life of an educator is intertwined with everyday embodied
practice. This is a provocative text, alive with the richness and
complexity of pedagogical experience, one that acknowledges the
presence of the body, the spirit, the passionate, the subjective,
the intuitive, the chaotic, and the sacred in all the relationships
that make teaching and learning possible. In speaking beyond the
limitations of dualistic pedagogy, in its diverse forms and
locations, Embodied wisdom enters at times into unexpected and
little explored pedagogical territories, engaging with educational
contexts that our dualistic culture often denigrates, dismisses, or
considers taboo. This work offers readers subtle understandings of
the centrality of love, desire and eros in teaching and learning;
carefully examines the connections between powerful family and
school pedagogies, including "domestic" violence against women and
childhood sexual abuse; opens up a textual space in which to
contemplate the contemporary relevance of the ancient wisdom of Zen
pedagogy; and gives serious consideration to the role that the
public pedagogies of popular culture play in the formation of
personal and cultural identity. The work of healing our dualistic
educational culture is a significant political and ethical
undertaking - a matter of social justice. Embodied wisdom is a book
that lights the way for those who want to engage in meaningful
cultural transformation. It is, above all, a generative and hopeful
text, one that makes possible new kinds of conversations. It will
be of interest to curriculum theorists and teacher educators, as
well as those engaged in holistic education, social ecology,
women's and gender studies, and cultural studies. This
award-winning, ground breaking exploration of memoir as methodology
is also an exquisitely written resource for those engaged in
innovative arts-based and autobiographical research.
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