The Teacher's Body: Embodiment, Authority, and Identity in the Academy Condition:Like New A poisoning many years ago

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

Conversion to Christianity in 1950 radically altered the course of his life

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" So begins the Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of Frank McCourt

The Teacher's Body: Embodiment, Authority, and Identity in the Academy Condition:Like New A poisoning many years agoThese 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,