The Body as (in) Curriculum: On Wars, Complexes and Rides
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| Title: | The Body as (in) Curriculum: On Wars, Complexes and Rides |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Janssen, Diederik F. |
| Source: | Pedagogy, Culture and Society. 2007 15(1):1-17. |
| Availability: | Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 325 Chestnut Street Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Fax: 215-625-2940; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 17 |
| Publication Date: | 2007 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Descriptive |
| Descriptors: | Sexuality, Human Body, Curriculum, Teaching Methods, Educational Theories, Inquiry, Child Development, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries, Social Influences, History |
| Geographic Terms: | Africa |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14681360601161958 |
| ISSN: | 1468-1366 |
| Abstract: | In this article the author discusses what he considers to be an ultrastructure of Michel Foucault's "pedagogisation" of sex, which is the expanding normative imagination of bodies and sexualities as and in curricula. Here the author proposes an inclusive reading of "curriculum" that departs from the specific scholastic definition, one that embraces the total cultural apparatus that prescribes bodies' chronologies. Body curricula are explored by their being implied in diverse pedagogical paradigms articulating a body's development, specifically its sexual development. As a test-case, he illustrates how alternating stories of "first sexual experiences" correspond to alternating tales of the body in/as a curricular order, the order that renders bodies "curricular" and, "as such", subject to pedagogical praxis. In an attempt to open up such body curricula to an anthropological digestion, he describes three paradigms of storying virginity, alternatively plotted as a "war", a "complex" and a "ride". (Contains 4 notes.) |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Number of References: | 86 |
| Entry Date: | 2011 |
| Accession Number: | EJ937959 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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| Abstract: | In this article the author discusses what he considers to be an ultrastructure of Michel Foucault's "pedagogisation" of sex, which is the expanding normative imagination of bodies and sexualities as and in curricula. Here the author proposes an inclusive reading of "curriculum" that departs from the specific scholastic definition, one that embraces the total cultural apparatus that prescribes bodies' chronologies. Body curricula are explored by their being implied in diverse pedagogical paradigms articulating a body's development, specifically its sexual development. As a test-case, he illustrates how alternating stories of "first sexual experiences" correspond to alternating tales of the body in/as a curricular order, the order that renders bodies "curricular" and, "as such", subject to pedagogical praxis. In an attempt to open up such body curricula to an anthropological digestion, he describes three paradigms of storying virginity, alternatively plotted as a "war", a "complex" and a "ride". (Contains 4 notes.) |
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| ISSN: | 1468-1366 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14681360601161958 |
