Conversations on Embodiment Across Higher Education

Jennifer Leigh is Lecturer in Higher Education and Academic Practice at the Centre for Study of Higher Education, University of Kent.

• Foreword by Susan Stinson Introduction by Jennifer LeighChapter 1 Embodiment as embodiment of by Paul Bowman Ben Spatz in conversation with Paul Bowman: Words, pictures, bodiesChapter 2 Posthuman embodiment: On the functions of things in embodiment processes by Grit HöppnerAdrian Skilbeck in conversation with Grit HöppnerChapter 3 Letters to an empty room by Ben SpatzMike Poltorak in conversation with Ben Spatz: Resonances in an empty roomChapter 4 Seriousness, voice and ventriloquism: Making ourselves intelligible in higher education by Adrian SkilbeckRichard Bailey in conversation with Adrian Skilbeck: Making ourselves intelligible in higher education Chapter 5 Displacing the one: Dislocated thinking in higher education by Catherine Herring and Paul StandishRobb Lindgren and Sara Price in conversation with Catherine Herring and Paul StandishChapter 6 The embodied academic: Body work in teacher education by Nicole BrownKimber Andrews in conversation with Nicole Brown: Inhabiting scholarship: Embodiment in teacher educationChapter 7 Under this weight: Embodiment in dance choreography by Angela PickardPaul Bowman in conversation with Angela PickardChapter 8 Embodied professional early childhood education and care teaching practices by Eva Mikuska and Sandra LyndonCatherine Herring and Paul Standish in conversation with Eva Mikuska and Sandra LyndonChapter 9 Finding the dance in the everyday: A flesh and bones approach to studying embodiment by Kimber AndrewsAngela Pickard in conversation with Kimber AndrewsChapter 10 Researching embodied sport and movement cultures: Theoretical and methodological considerations by Ian WellardNicole Brown in conversation with Ian WellardChapter 11 Embodied practice and academic embodied identity by Jennifer LeighIan Wellard in conversation with Jennifer LeighChapter 12 Embodiment and technology-enhanced learning environments: Cultivating a new community of design research by Robb Lindgren and Sara PriceGrit Höppner in conversation with Robb Lindgren and Sara Piece: Embodiment as a methodological tool of technology-based learning processes in schoolsChapter 13 Embodied reflexivity: Sharing and transformation in teaching visual anthropology by Mike PoltorakJennifer Leigh in conversation with Mike PoltorakChapter 14 Being there: Exploring an embodied-relational approach to understanding children’s physical activity by Richard BaileyEva Mikuska and Sandra Lyndon in conversation with Richard Bailey: A conversational pieceConcluding thoughts by Jennifer Leigh

"Dr Jennifer Leigh’s training in body-mind-movement work and her multi-disciplinary background in higher education and academic practice are put into excellent service in this edited collection. In bringing together a wide range of pedagogic, practice-based and performative understandings of embodiment, the book provides a theoretical and practical grounding for anyone wanting to take the pulse of the contested state of embodiment studies across a wide range of higher education disciplines. Written as a series of reflexive conversations, this book provides an accessible introduction to embodiment as a living, breathing, worldly engagement which breaks down the tired binary of theory/practice."Carol A. Taylor, Professor of Higher Education and Gender, University of Bath."Creating a sense of theater-in-the-round to contemplate embodiment from a range of disciplines and perspectives, this volume will engage and compel its reading audience, with vibrant, expansive, dialogical, and timely ideas."Liora Bresler, PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Professor in the College of Education, Curriculum and Instruction, and the School of Art and Design.