Somatic learning: Bringing the body into critical reflection

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Rigg
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reflection ◽  
The Body ◽  
Somatic Learning

scholarly journals La tiranía de la belleza, un problema educativo hoy. La estética del cuerpo como valor y como problema

10.14201/2990 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique Gervilla Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Current Problem ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Human Formation ◽  
Problem Characteristic ◽  
The Will ◽  
A Current

RESUMEN: Un problema actual, propio de la sociedad de consumo, es el culto al cuerpo y a su valor estético. La obsesión por el cuerpo perfecto ha conducido, especialmente a grupos de jóvenes, a una tiranía ele la belleza. Ello dificulta en unos casos, e impide en otros, la coexistencia de otros valores de mayor urgencia y necesidad en la formación humana, alterando, así, el orden vivencial de la jerarquía axiológica según la fuerza y la altura.Tal situación, demanda una respuesta desde la educación, por cuanto ésta, no sólo pretende incorporar valores a la existencia personal, sino una incorporación acorde con el desarrollo integral y armónico del ser humano en cuanto humano. Para ello, es necesario persuadir, convencer y no vencer —mediante la reflexión crítica del problema, la apreciación y el esfuerzo— para impulsar la decisión de la voluntad, más aún en situaciones ambientales adversas.ABSTRACT: A current problem, characteristic of the customer society, is the cult to the body and its aesthetic value. Obsession for the perfect body has driven, especially to groups of young people, to a tyranny of beauty. This make more difficult it in some cases, and impedes otherwise, the coexistence of other more urgency and necessity values in the human formation, altering, in this way, the vivencial order of the axiologic hierarchy according to the strengh and height.This situation, demands an answer from education, becouse of this, it doesn't only seek to incorporate values to personal existence, but an incorporation in agreement with the integral and harmonic improvement of the human being as a human. For this, it is necessaiy to persuade, to convince and not to conquer —by means of the critical reflection of the problem, appreciation and effort— to impel the decision of the will, stiller in adverse environmental situations.SOMMAIRE: Un problème actuel, propre de la société de la consommation, est le culte au corps et sa valeur esthétique. L'obsession pour le corps parfait a conduit, surtout à des groupes de jeunes, à une tyrannie de la beauté. Ceci fait difficile dans quelques cas, et empêche dans d'autres, la coexistence d'autres valeurs plus urgents et nécessaires dans la formation humaine, en changeant Tordre vivenciel de la hiérarchie axiologique d'après la force et la hauteur.Une telle situation demande Line réponse éducationnelle, étant donné que l'éducation ne cherche pas seulement à incorporer des valeurs à l'existence personnelle, mais aussi à ce que cette incorporation soit faite en harmonie avec le développement plein de l'être humain en tant qu'luimain. Pour atteindre cet objectif il est nécessaire de persuader, convaincre et pas vaincre —à travers la reflexion critique du problème, l'estimation et l'effort— pOLir impulser la décision de la volonté, encore plus dans Lin environnement si difficile.

scholarly journals Emotions, affects, and trauma in classrooms: Moving beyond the representational genre

2019 ◽  
Vol 106 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michalinos Zembylas
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reflection ◽  
The Body ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Transformative Action

The purpose of this paper is to draw together and engage some of the most prominent themes throughout the literature on emotions, affects, and trauma in classrooms: the representation of trauma in classrooms and its risks; the body as a part of traumatic experience and how it may be engaged pedagogically; and the un/making of affective communities as pedagogical spaces that can be transformative. It is argued that the prevalent representational account of trauma in classrooms imposes certain constraints that frame the pedagogical work that may be conducted. New theoretical and research developments in the affective turn about the implications of emotions, affects, and trauma for the body and politics, pose serious challenges to the representational genre. It is suggested that reparative pedagogies grounded in new theoretical perspectives may invoke critical reflection and transformative action in ways that expose and reframe the affective infrastructures of exclusion, inequality, and injustice.

scholarly journals Ciała dyscyplinowane czy podmioty transgresywne? Somatoestetyka fikcyjnych zespołów death- i blackmetalowych

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 34-46
Author(s):  
Konrad Sierzputowski
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reflection ◽  
The Body ◽  
Black Metal ◽  
Metal Music ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Japanese Animation

Disciplined bodies or transgressive subjects. Somatoesthetics of fictional death and black metal bands The performances of metal music gropus kind be described as a spectacles of a high degree of symbolic convention, which is paradoxically intended to cause the effect of constant authenticity among spectators and listeners. However, it is diffucult to find any kind of material that shows behind-the-scenes existance of those gropus, we can find critical reflection on the phenomenon of behind-the-scenes discipline in meta-music texts, such as comics and animations devoted to the biographies of fictional music groups. These texts transgress the problem of the masochistic spectacle of the body fictional authenticity of the musical groups. Examples of such texts are the Japanese animation Detroit Metal City (2008) and the Polish comic Będziesz smażyć się w Piekle by Krzysztof “Prosiak” Owedyk (2016).

Giving Sense to the Past

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timmy de Laet
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reflection ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Past ◽  
Psychological Dimensions

One of the most common assertion about reenactment is that it installs a form of “affective historiography.” Because reenactment engages the body in relating to the past, it adds corporeal, sensorial, emotional, or psychological dimensions to history in ways that books or documents allegedly cannot offer. This tendency, however, to regard reenactment as an alternative to traditional modes of historiography has led to an overemphasis on its immersive effects, at the expense of its epistemological potential. This chapter argues that even while dance reenactment might share with its more popular counterparts the appeal to sensory immediacy, it turns the format into an artistic strategy that exploits, rather than covers up, historical distance, which incites critical reflection on what it means to restage the past in terms of time and affect.

Erfahrungen in japanischen Gärten

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-134
Author(s):  
Mathias Obert
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Phenomenological Description ◽  
Japanese Gardens ◽  
Basic Ideas ◽  
Made In

This paper tries to elucidate phenomena relied to experiences actually made in Japanese gardens. By means of phenomenological description and analysis, it aims at clarifying, from the stance of aesthetics and philosophy, how those specific experiences should be understood, how exactly intuition and experience constitute themselves hereby. Besides discussing questions concerning the naturalness and strangeness of reality, this article mainly deals with basic ideas of phenomenology, such as horizon, affection, tonality, responsivity, genesis of phenomena, as well as temporality. This endeavour narrowly intertwines concrete analysis of phenomena with critical reflection on how to do phenomenology, the author being convinced that thinking on conditions of phenomenality may become meaningful only when staying in close touch with the concrete experiencing of phenomena themselves. Thus, this paper aims at contributing to a phenomenological thinking rooted in aesthetic experience and the body

Auto-synthesis

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Trowell
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Music ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Metric Spaces ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Punk Rock ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Rigid Model

This article attempts to place the dynamic of popular electronic music, evident since the late 1970s and extending to the current situation, at the forefront of developing both a strategy of critique and a medium for critical reflection. The genres covered include electronic music in and around the time of punk rock, subsequent moves to the forcing ground of pop music with the era of synth-pop, the dynamic upheavals created through the surging form of techno, up to the prevalent genres of micro-sound and electronica. The essence of both the body of critique formulated by the music, and the critical reflection of such critique (as developed in works when a genre of music is said to have ‘passed’) is not pinned to a rigid model of assessment. Instead, the strength of popular music's ability to strategise and conduct a critique is considered in the self-same music's ability to subvert the definition and ‘metric spaces’ of critique as accumulated through previous genres.

Representing utility and deploying the body

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Spurrett
Keyword(s):  
Functional Activity ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
The Body ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Processing Demands ◽  
The Many

Abstract Comprehensive accounts of resource-rational attempts to maximise utility shouldn't ignore the demands of constructing utility representations. This can be onerous when, as in humans, there are many rewarding modalities. Another thing best not ignored is the processing demands of making functional activity out of the many degrees of freedom of a body. The target article is almost silent on both.

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