![]() I love as well how the salon has given voice to scholars of different generations and different national traditions, while revealing commonalities that have traversed our intellectual communities despite language barriers. But the video also gave me the opportunity to listen repeatedly to the provocations and to ponder how I might respond in my own work. ![]() ![]() So while listening to Mona reiterate the challenges that the body offers us as historians of education, I also hear those drumbeats, as well as hundreds of strands of conversations about bodies in schools, disabled bodies, the hysterical bodies of women, or the techniques of disciplining bodies. For those who attended the opening ceremony in Chicago, you all undoubtedly remember how that ceremony brought all of our bodies into movement as we danced around the room to the songs and drumbeats of an American Indian welcome ceremony. I love the sweeping analytic gaze and the defense of the longue durée that Georges offers us and then the transition to Mona Gleason’s series of provocations that echo those she proposed at greater length at the outset of the ISCHE 38 conference in Chicago. I really love the movement I heard, from Georges Vigarello speaking about what has become such a classic text for Francophone scholars –– Le corps redressé, histoire d’un pouvoir pédagogique (1978)–– to Pieter Verstraete’s video that leads us to query our own physicality as historians of education, who spend so much time now clacking away on keyboards. I would like to begin though by offering my “reading of” or “listening to” these four videos (that mobilize a range of sensory experiences, as we tap on our keyboards, watch the computer screen, and listen to voices speaking in French, English and Spanish). ![]() And yet, when I think back, schoolgirl bodies are present in all of my writings since my dissertation, without my making a conscious effort to think more seriously about how I could use this to offer new perspectives, explore new sources or develop new theories, as Mona Gleason urges us to do in her video. Le corps saisi (blog post from Rebecca Rogers)Īs the organizer of this first History of education salon, I thought it might be interesting to comment on what this experience offered me, as an historian of education who hasn’t paid a great deal of attention to the body in her own scholarship. ![]()
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