The Teacher's Body: Embodiment, Authority, and Identity in the Academy Condition:Like New neighborhoods

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" So begins the Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of Frank McCourt

like a video without a screen

the corrupting influence of technology and progress

The Teacher's Body: Embodiment, Authority, and Identity in the Academy Condition:Like New neighborhoodsThese highly personal essays from a range of academic settings explore the palpable moments of discomfort, disempowerment, and or enlightenment that emerge when we discard the fiction that the teacher has no body. Visible and or invisible, the body can transform both the teacher s experience and classroom dynamics. When students think the teacher s body is clearly marked by ethnicity, race, disability, size, gender, sexuality, illness, age, pregnancy,