Performing Embodied Pedagogy: Listening to the Small Talk of My Injured Back

Authors

  • Lorna Louise Ramsay Simon Fraser University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37119/ojs2014.v20i2.176

Keywords:

Poetic Inquiry, Embodiment, Multi-Literacy, Reflective Practices

Abstract

I approach my new class of teachers-in-training with familiar embodied postures of discomfort and pain, anxiety and fear. I listen to my embodied poetic texts and reinterpret them through an injured body as inquiry into all my identities as musician, writer, photographer, educator, and yogi. I introduce myself to my new students by playing my flute, a vulnerable demonstration and invitation to negotiate corporeal histories through arts-based expression and transformative writing processes.

Author Biography

  • Lorna Louise Ramsay, Simon Fraser University

    Lorna Ramsay, PhD Arts Education, Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada, is a poet, musician, and educator inviting often multi-layered embodied interpretation of daily life events through genres of poetic inquiry.

    I have a background in special and teacher education, arts performance, and reflective practices.

    My home near the ocean is for my four sons.

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Published

2014-11-17

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 2 (2014): Autumn 2014 Special Issue: [Practices of Poetic Inquiry] in education

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