1st Edition

Embodied Educational Experience Among Ukrainian Displaced Students Methodological Insights into Education During Forced Migration

By Mariia Vitrukh Copyright 2026
166 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

166 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Embodied Educational Experience Among Ukrainian Displaced Students engages embodied inquiry and analysis of education in the context of forced migration.  Informed by somatic practice, the book offers methodological body-based tools to explore students' forced migration (embodied) experiences as they are lived. Students in this study moved either with Displaced Universities from... Read more

Introduction

 Part 1: Conceptualizing Embodied Knowledge of Education in the Context of Forced Migration

 Chapter 1. Education in the Context of Forced Migration: Bodies, Narratives and Policies

1.1. Overview of the Problem: The Lived Embodied Experiences of Those Seeking Refuge

1.2. Metaphors of Forced Migration: Bodies, Narratives and Policies

1.3. Education in the Context of Forced Migration: Examples from the USA, EU and Ukraine


Chapter 2. Conceptualizing Body in the Context of Forced Migration

2.1. Embodied Knowledge through Sensing and Relating

2.2. Forced Migration through the Thinking Body

2.3. Forced Migration through the Event

2.4. Forced Migration through the Materiality of Space

Part 2: Exploring Embodied Knowledge of Education in the Context of the Ongoing War  

Chapter 3. Cyclical Relationship of the Migrant’s Body

3.1. Challenges of Doing Research in the Context of War

3.2. Role of the Researcher: Ethical, Contextual and Other Challenges


Chapter 4. Exploring Forced Migration through the Body

4.1. The Thinking Body

4.2. Perception through Touch: Relational Dynamic of Forced Migration

4.3. Landscape Perception as the Form of Seeing Others


Chapter 5. What Did the Forced Migrant’s Body See?

5.1. Embodied Unveiling Event

5.2. Event-interruption

5.3. Flash Event

Part 3: Final Thoughts on Embodied Knowledge Possibilities and Challenges

Chapter 6. Challenges and Possibilities of the Embodied Knowledge(s)

6.1. Embodied Knowledge in the Use

6.2. Challenges and Possibilities of Exploring Embodied Knowledge in Forced Migration

Biography

Mariia Vitrukh, PhD, focuses in her research on (post)qualitative methodologies, higher education, forced migration policies and forced migrants' lived experiences.