Towards a knowledge of the body in the classroom: An educational experience

Abstract

Introduction: this work recognises the criticisms that some studies make of how Education has dealt with the body in classroom contexts: fixed, immobile, silent and standardised bodies; against the vision of modern education that is directed towards the reasonable and narrows the sensible, the question about the "corpographic" traces is not only about putting the body in Education but about thinking about how it is done and what is done with those bodies in university classroom contexts. Objective: identify the "corpographic" traces or the ways in which the "word" is given to the body in the classroom based on the experience of teaching in university classroom contexts. Materials and methods: it is an educational research with rhizomatic method (rhizoanalytic). The empirical work privileged the observation of the scene or the pedagogical encounter (the class), the interview and the documentary analysis of typical classroom material. Results: the "corpographic" traces that emerge from the experience of teaching in university classroom contexts account for two dimensions: the first one announces the idea of a living classroom when bodies are present: Body-Sonorities; Body-Biographies; Body-Geographies of the skin and a motor "corpography". The second dimension indicates the germination of a composition plane for a "Corporal Education": "Pedagogies that praise the slowness", "Pedagogies of touch", Pedagogies that announce a knowledge of oneself "," Pedagogies of experience "and" Pedagogies of the presence". Conclusions: in these university classroom experiences, we find new relationships between bodies and education beyond the disciplinary perspective that roots the training with the idea of hiding the subject of your body. Analysing the ways in which bodies are written in the classroom makes didactics changeable because thinking from the body requires inhabiting the classroom with "embodied" pedagogies that are revealing for "corporal" thinking and stimulate the creation of another-didactic or "heterodidactics".