Teachers and teaching: subjectivity, performativity and the body
Vick, Melissa, and Martinez, Carissa (2011) Teachers and teaching: subjectivity, performativity and the body. Educational Philosophy and Theory , 43 (2). pp. 178-192.
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Abstract
It has become almost commonplace to recognise that teaching is an embodied practice. Most analyses of teaching as embodied practice focus on the embodied nature of the teacher as subject. Here, we use Butler's concept of performativity to analyse the reiterated acts that are intelligible as—performatively constitute—teaching, rather of the teacher as subject. We suggest that this simultaneously helps explain the persistence of teaching as a narrow repertoire of actions recognisable as 'teaching', and the policing of conformity to teaching thus embodied. However, like performatively accomplished subjectivity, this repertoire is unstable and ambiguous, and thus open to change and disruption. Moreover, teacher subjectivities may lead them to mobilise these possibilities of disruption.
| Item ID: | 20032 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1469-5812 |
| Keywords: | teachers, teaching, subjectivity, performativity, teacher's body |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Mar 2012 02:07 |
| FoR Codes: | 13 EDUCATION > 1303 Specialist Studies in Education > 130399 Specialist Studies in Education not elsewhere classified @ 70% 13 EDUCATION > 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy > 130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development @ 30% |
| SEO Codes: | 93 EDUCATION AND TRAINING > 9302 Teaching and Instruction > 930201 Pedagogy @ 40% 93 EDUCATION AND TRAINING > 9399 Other Education and Training > 939999 Education and Training not elsewhere classified @ 60% |
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