Discipline and Learn Bodies, Pedagogy and Writing
Discipline and Learn: Bodies, Pedagogy and Writing explores how discipline is typically construed as a form of subjection in contemporary educational thought and in critical and cultural theory more broadly. It provides a critique of this emphasis on the
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Discipline and Learn Bodies, Pedagogy and Writing
Megan Watkins
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ISBN: 978-94-6091-697-7 (paperback) ISBN: 978-94-6091-698-4 (hardback) ISBN: 978-94-6091-699-1 (e-book)
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DEDICATION
To Gwen, who was the first to discipline me and from whom I first learned. To Greg, who would probably like to discipline me and from whom I’m always learning. And To Declan, who I hope I have disciplined well and who seems to love learning.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
ix
Introduction: Discipline and learn
1
Section 1: Bodies in theory 1. Conceiving the body
13
2. Pedagogy and the mindful body
39
Section 2: Bodies in text 3. Tracing the body
63
Section 3: Bodies in practice 4. Supple bodies: cultivating a desire to learn
95
5. Transitional bodies: the affects of education
139
6. Habituated bodies: established routines of practice
167
Conclusion: Disparate bodies
193
Appendix 1: Observation overview – KS
203
Appendix 2: Observation overview – KP
205
Appendix 3: Observation overview – 3R
207
Appendix 4: Observation overview – 3C
208
Appendix 5: Observation overview – 5D
210
Appendix 6: Observation overview – 5O
211
Notes
213
Bibliography
215
Index
225 vii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book has had a long genesis. It started life as a doctoral thesis, the data from which I drew on to write a number of articles and a book chapter, and so I want to acknowledge each of the following and to thank the publishers for permission to reproduce sections from each of these within this publication: Watkins, M. (2009). Deleuze, habit and the literate body. In Masny, D. & Cole, D. (Eds). Multiple literacies theory: A Deleuzian perspective (pp. 31–49). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers; Watkins, M. (2008). Teaching bodies/learning desire: Rethinking the role of desire in the pedagogic process. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 16(2), 113–124; Watkins, M. (2007). Disparate bodies: The role of the teacher in contemporary pedagogic practice. British Journal of the Sociology of Education, 28(6), 767–781; Watkins, M. (2006). Pedagogic affect/effect: Embodying the desire to learn. Pedagogies, 1(4), 269–282; Watkins, M. (2005). Discipline, consciousness and the formation of a scholarly habitus. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 19(4), 545–557; and Watkins, M. (2005). The erasure of habit: Tracing the pedagogic body. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Educa
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