Corporeal experience and equality
A new approach to the educational significance of the body
Joris Vlieghe und Maarten Simons
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Joris Vlieghe, Maarten Simons, Corporeal experience and equality (2012), Beltz Juventa, 69469 Weinheim, ISSN: 0044-3247, 2012 #03, S.371
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Abstract: In this article we overview different positions that have been taken in educational theory in regard with the meaning of corporeality for education. We argue that the body either appears as a factor through which subjectivity gets discursively formed, which makes the body lose its material weight, or as a vehicle by means of which existing educational goals, such as the furthering of a fully developed personality or an accurate view of the world are more authentically and efficiently realized. We argue that these approaches imply an instrumentalization of the body which makes it impossible to conceive the body in its full physicality. The experience of coinciding with one´s "flesh" might however carry a major educational importance out of itself, because of the radical equalizing and emancipatory qualities it might have.
Key words: educational philosophy, educational theory, equality, experience
Stichwörter: Bildungstheorie, Bildungsphilosophie, Gleichheit, Versuch
Key words: educational philosophy, educational theory, equality, experience
Stichwörter: Bildungstheorie, Bildungsphilosophie, Gleichheit, Versuch