Curriculum and the Cultural Body extends the discussion of body knowledge by attending to the unspoken questions and practices in education that silence, conceal, and limit bodies. The collection of essays exemplifies a new genre of interdisciplinary writing, drawing on such diverse discourses as curriculum studies; cultural studies; film studies; media and technology studies; feminist theory; queer theory; phenomenology; a/r/tography; and art education. The authors in this edited book explore the multiplicities and complexities of the body in learning and knowing. Each engages with questions that relate the practices of culture to a re-conceptualization of the body in and as curriculum.

In school the human body exists to be disciplined to the point of it virtually disappearing. In society the human body is one's most significant artifact of identity and primary means of communication about oneself and one's culture. Comparing and to some extent reconciling the two is one of the purposes of these 15 papers, which remark upon curriculum in culture, media and technology, feminist and queer theory, phenomenology and art. Topics include pedagogical intersections of art and technology with the body, filmed bodies and the body of film, the body online and in curriculum, silent bodies at a disadvantage in schooling, sartorial inquiry, male bodies as teachers, disability in popular culture, women's bodies in popular culture, the importance of veils, teaching around homophobia, birth and female embodiment, intimacy in curriculum, and the performance of the curricular body.
Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

In school the human body exists to be disciplined to the point of it virtually disappearing. In society the human body is one's most significant artifact of identity and primary means of communication about oneself and one's culture. Comparing and to some extent reconciling the two is one of the purposes of these 15 papers, which remark upon curriculum in culture, media and technology, feminist and queer theory, phenomenology and art. Topics include pedagogical intersections of art and technology with the body, filmed bodies and the body of film, the body online and in curriculum, silent bodies at a disadvantage in schooling, sartorial inquiry, male bodies as teachers, disability in popular culture, women's bodies in popular culture, the importance of veils, teaching around homophobia, birth and female embodiment, intimacy in curriculum, and the performance of the curricular body. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)