3. Educating bodies

Author(s):  
Chris Shilling

The matter of education raises broader issues about how profit or value is extracted from or added to embodied subjects. Educational institutions seek to structure and direct people’s embodied capacities for experiencing, reflecting on, and engaging with the social, physical, and symbolic environments in which they live. The results of these educational processes can also enhance or constrain people’s ability to add value to their own lives as well as to those of others. ‘Educating bodies’ considers the mechanisms involved in body pedagogics, described by Marcel Mauss as ‘techniques of the body’, comprising biological, physiological, and social processes, as well as John Dewey’s discussion of anoetic and noetic knowledge.

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 217
Author(s):  
Merissa Braza Ocampo

Amidst the burgeoning research currently conducted on the effects of COVID-19, this study looks particularly at teachers’ stress and anxiety during a time of heightened global uncertainty, which also strongly affects educational processes. The paper draws on data provided through online questionnaires, and follow-up interviews with teachers at a variety of educational institutions in Japan, the Philippines, and eight other countries. Findings from 100 respondents include details regarding the extent and distribution of various behaviors and emotional tendencies gained from quantitative analysis, and additional follow up questions, all conducted online. Numerous strategies for combatting the negative impact of COVID-19 are presented, and a variety of individual responses to this predicament is stressed. The study confirms that COVID-19 is having an unprecedented impact on education, affecting not only students but teachers as well. Thus, the study aims to both assist in alleviating the negative impacts on teachers’ wellbeing and to provide helpful insights that contribute to the body of knowledge on teachers’ coping management of perceived stress and anxiety.


Author(s):  
L. Lipich ◽  
O. Balagura

The article is devoted to the problem of formation of sociological imagination in the process of teaching sociology to students studying in technical educational institutions. The concept of “sociological imagination”, introduced into scientific circulation by the American sociologist Wright Mills, is being clarified. It turns out that the concept of sociological imagination has acquired the status of one of the main in modern sociology and began to play an important educational role, and in sociological science, respectively, methodological and methodological. Attention is paid to the peculiarities of teaching sociology in technical educational institutions, and in view of this, the problem of forming the sociological imagination of students. The fact is that sociology in technical educational institutions is not professional, so it is taught exclusively as a general discipline of worldview. The purpose of teaching sociology in such higher education institutions is to promote the formation of students’ sociological imagination, ie to help future specialists in engineering to develop the ability to think socially, ie to adequately perceive, comprehend and interpret social processes and phenomena, analyze and be ready to solve complex social problems. The solution of this problem involves the use of such methods of teaching sociology, which would be related to the specific practices of modern society, taking into account the universal and professional interests of future professionals. The own experience of teaching sociology at the National Transport University is analyzed. There are examples of using different methods of teaching sociology, aimed at forming a sociological imagination that allow students to perceive the social world around them and relate their professional problems with general social problems, educate and shape their civic position and increase their general cultural level.


10.14201/984 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Penalva Buitrago

RESUMEN: Este artículo ofrece un análisis filosófico de la idea de la construcción social de la escuela. Tomando como punto de partida algunas de las claves críticas que I. Hacking señala respecto del constructivismo, el autor ensaya una nueva ruta de análisis, no explorada por Hacking: el análisis del constructivismo social en los procesos educativos y en las instituciones educativas. Con ello se intenta poner de relieve cuestiones teóricas de fondo –principalmente de carácter ontológico– acerca de las cuales la comunidad pedagógica ha prestado escasa atención. El análisis se desarrolla en cuatro pasos: en primer lugar, se ofrecen las ideas de Hacking más relevantes al respecto; después, se expone una síntesis de la posición dominante acerca de la construcción social de la escuela. Seguidamente, se analizan los aspectos ontológicos implicados en tal idea, y, por último, se extraen las consecuencias educativas.ABSTRACT: This paper offers a philosophical analysis of the idea of the social construction of School. Taking as a standpoint some critical questions which I. Hacking proposed regarding constructivism, the author examines a new route, not explored by Hacking, i.e., the analysis of social constructivism in educational processes and educational institutions. In this way we expect to throw light on certain deep theoretical questions –of an ontological nature, mainly– to which the educational community has paid little attention. The analysis follows four steps: first, it describes Hacking’s most important ideas in this regard; second, it synthesises the dominant stance concerning the social construction of School. Third, it examines the ontological assumptions of this idea, and, finally, describes some educational consequences.SOMMAIRE: Cet article offre une analyse philosophique de la structure sociale des écoles. L’auteur, à partir de quelques idées critiques signalées par I. Hacking à propos du constructivisme, envisage une nouvelle approche pas explorée par Hacking: celle de l’analyse du constructivisme social dans les processus et les institutions éducatives. Cette approche a pour but de signaler quelques questions théoriques fondamentales –de nature ontologique principalement– très peu analysées par la communauté pédagogique. L’analyse se déroule en quatre étapes: en premier lieu, les idées fondamentales de I. Hacking sont exposées; en second lieu, une synthèse du discours dominant sur la construction sociale de l’école est offerte; en troisième lieu, les aspects ontologiques impliquées y sont développés et, finalement, en quatrième lieu, les conséquences éducatives y sont dégagées.


2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulia Mascagni

This work analyses the relation between social inequality and health by focusing on the social processes and individual mechanisms that construct it within the area of action of the economic sphere, the cultural sphere and the social and territorial sphere. Within this framework, the body is conceived as a link between the physical, biological and material dimensions and the social, relational and emotional dimensions. At the same time, the proposal is to go beyond the well-known relationship between economic resources/social position and levels of health/life expectation, concentrating on the specific social and psychological dynamics generated by the availability of socio-economic capital. The over-simplified perspective of the social gradient of health is overtaken by an analysis of the relational dimension of the individual and his/her reference groups, and finally by appraising both the individual and collective aspects that can be traced to the social and political context and to the different welfare systems.


2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominika Byczkowska-Owczarek ◽  
Honorata Jakubowska

The article presents and discusses the way of teaching sociology of the body whose aim is to allow students to become familiar with embodied methodology and make them methodologically sensitive. The research tasks given to the students are based on analytic autoethnography which influences the students’ methodological development. Examples of the students’ works are presented and discussed, particularly in terms of the advantages they might bring in the educational proces and difficulties that they may cause to both the student and the teacher. As the most valuable benefits deriving from this way of teaching the authors indicate: raising methodological sensitivity, the ability to link embodied experience and knowledge with theoretical concepts, self-understanding in terms of social processes, but also putting into practice the perspective of embodiment in the social sciences. The courses of the sociology of the body in Poland and their status at Polish universities are presented as the context. The authors claim that the skills learnt during this course are crucial for students of sociology and for their methodological competencies, not only in the field of sociology of the body.


Author(s):  
Z. V. Syrovatko

In the article, the motor activity of students of higher educational institutions. The importance of physical education of student youth in a pandemic has been determined. The necessity of increasing motivation for physical education classes by means of volleyball has been substantiated. It was revealed that volleyball is the most popular sport among today's youth. Physical activity is of less importance in the life of the people, and even in the process of the evolution of the world, the biological needs of the people have been formulated with the needs of people, water, self-preservation, meager. Physical activity is positively infused into the psyche and into the physical health and is an important, fundamental official who formulates, protects and changes. Seemingly, it’s an hour to take physical rights in the body of people singing mechanisms, as a result of which the functions of not only the muscular system, but the mental, heart-vascular, nervous system and herbal systems are accepted. Besides. Physical activity is injected into the social function of the people, the spawn, on the preoccupation of the society with the kidnapped person, so the possibility is more active in the suspension. Do not bother with those of the current year, to actively develop the promotion of a healthy way of living, seemingly infusing regular people with physical rights, different kinds of sports, about those who need food to feed students from the middle of youth activity.


2021 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 12130
Author(s):  
Marina Elagina ◽  
Alisa Achina ◽  
Anastasia Lomaka

Today, both in science and in everyday life, there is an increased interest in the concept of the human body. For a modern person, his body becomes that essential condition that largely determines professional, social and even personal success. It can even be said that the concept of the body is today one of the aspects of the social concept of a person and his place in society. Indeed, there is a clear trend towards an increase in the consumption of services aimed at meeting the need for the formation of a healthy and beautiful body: sports clubs and gyms, home exercise equipment, diet food, body shaping services in a variety of ways, etc. The conducted research has shown that despite the elaboration of the question of self-physical in theoretical terms, there is a certain lack of research in this area with a practical focus. Today, in state policy, the priority is to orient the population towards a healthy lifestyle. Consequently, for psychologists, the targeting of psychotherapy methods should be to help people with different attitudes to a healthy lifestyle. In order for such recommendations to be really useful and scientifically substantiated, it is advisable to identify significant differences in the understanding of the physical self by people with different attitudes towards a healthy lifestyle.


2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bayram Unal

This study deals with survival strategies of illegal migrants in Turkey. It aims to provide an explanation for the efforts to keep illegality sustainable for one specific ethnic/national group—that is, the Gagauz of Moldova, who are of Turkish ethnic origin. In order to explicate the advantages of Turkish ethnic origin, I will focus on their preferential treatment at state-law level and in terms of the implementation of the law by police officers. In a remarkable way, the juridical framework has introduced legal ways of dealing with the illegality of ethnically Turkish migrants. From the viewpoint of migration, the presence of strategic tools of illegality forces us to ask not so much law-related questions, but to turn to a sociological inquiry of how and why they overstay their visas. Therefore, this study concludes that it is the social processes behind their illegality, rather than its form, that is more important for our understanding of the migrants’ survival strategies in destination countries.


Author(s):  
Rosemary J. Jolly

The last decade has witnessed far greater attention to the social determinants of health in health research, but literary studies have yet to address, in a sustained way, how narratives addressing issues of health across postcolonial cultural divides depict the meeting – or non-meeting – of radically differing conceptualisations of wellness and disease. This chapter explores representations of illness in which Western narrators and notions of the body are juxtaposed with conceptualisations of health and wellness entirely foreign to them, embedded as the former are in assumptions about Cartesian duality and the superiority of scientific method – itself often conceived of as floating (mysteriously) free from its own processes of enculturation and their attendant limits. In this respect my work joins Volker Scheid’s, in this volume, in using the capacity of critical medical humanities to reassert the cultural specificity of what we have come to know as contemporary biomedicine, often assumed to be


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Chavoshian ◽  
Sophia Park

Along with the recent development of various theories of the body, Lacan’s body theory aligns with postmodern thinkers such as Michael Foucault and Maurice Merlot-Ponti, who consider body social not biological. Lacan emphasizes the body of the Real, the passive condition of the body in terms of formation, identity, and understanding. Then, this condition of body shapes further in the condition of bodies of women and laborers under patriarchy and capitalism, respectively. Lacan’s ‘not all’ position, which comes from the logical square, allows women to question patriarchy’s system and alternatives of sexual identities. Lacan’s approach to feminine sexuality can be applied to women’s spirituality, emphasizing multiple narratives of body and sexual identities, including gender roles. In the social discernment and analysis in the liberation theology, we can employ the capitalist discourse, which provides a tool to understand how people are manipulated by late capitalist society, not knowing it. Lacan’s theory of ‘a body without a head’ reflects the current condition of the human body, which manifests lack, yet including some possibilities for transforming society.


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