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

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the corrupting influence of technology and progress

" So begins the Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of Frank McCourt

A poisoning many years ago may not have been accidental after all

By the end

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,