Reclaiming the "Excessive Body" as a Vehicle for Change

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 1
  In Roundtable Session: Affect and the Body: Ways of Knowing, Learning, and Being Present

Abstract

This paper aims to generate dialogue, discussion, and conversation on the importance of the body in scholarship and learning. As an educator, scholar, and dance artist, I bring the body into everything I do by investigating the relationship between language, writing, dance practices, and inclusive pedagogy. In response to AERA 2022 Call for Submissions, I offer a counter-narrative that reclaims the body as a way of knowing, learning, and being present in scholarship. Bringing each and every unique body into the room and using dance as a way of inquiry, is a way of giving embodied voices to diverse populations and, as such, cultivating “equitable education systems”.

Author

• Carolina Bergonzoni, Simon Fraser University