1st Edition

New Directions in Social Theory, Education and Embodiment

Edited By John Evans, Brian Davies Copyright 2013
166 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

This book exemplifies the nurturing spirit of inter-discursive debate with a view to opening up new theoretical and empirical insights, understanding, and engagement, with debates on issues relating to pedagogy, policy, equity and embodiment. From a variety of social science perspectives, an international force of contributors apply a multitude of concepts to research agendas which illustrate the... Read more

1. New directions, new questions? Social theory, education and embodiment  2. Skin pedagogies and abject bodies  3. Where inequality lives in the body: teenage pregnancy, public pedagogies and individual lives  4. Gender, visible bodies and schooling: cultural pathologies of childhood  5. ‘Change4Life for your kids’: embodied collectives and public health pedagogy  6. From embodiment to emplacement: re-thinking competing bodies, senses and spatialities  7. Inhabiting different bodies over time: narrative and pedagogical challenges  8. Urban walking and the pedagogies of the street  9. The feel of mobility: how children use sedentary lifestyles as a site of resistance  10. A meditation in which consideration is given to the past and future engagement of social science generally and critical physical education and sports scholarship in particular with various scientific debates, including the so-called ‘obesity epidemic’ and contemporary manifestations of biological determinism

Biography

John Evans is Professor of Sociology of Education and Physical Education at the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, UK.

Brian Davies is Emeritus Professor at the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK.