Full Description
Embodied Educational Experience Among Ukrainian Displaced Students engages embodied inquiry and analysis of education in the context of forced migration.
Informed by somatic practice, the book offers methodological body-based tools to explore students' forced migration (embodied) experiences as those are lived. Students in this study moved either with Displaced Universities from the war areas in Ukraine or independently in several waves. The study argues that students learn through sensing their way during forced migration, accumulating layers of kinesthetic information hidden in their bodies. It utilizes the innovative body-based approach to understanding forced migration in its continuous movement and becoming, never complete, continually under construction, with interwoven lifelines of human and non-human constituents and their entangled relationships, meanwhile offering a unique insight into educational context as the war is ongoing, which brings challenging ethical, theoretical, and methodological conversations.
This book contributes to a difficult and underrepresented conversation in the scholarly literature about embodied educational experiences among those students who were forced to leave their homes and endure multiple forced displacements. It will appeal to (post)qualitative scholars, and researchers working on education in the context of war or conflict, forced migration, movement, and arts-based methodologies.
Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Conceptualizing Embodied Knowledge of Education in the Context of Forced Migration
Chapter 1. Education in the Context of Forced Migration: Bodies, Narratives and Policies
1.1. Overview of the Problem: the Lived Embodied Experiences of those Seeking Refuge
1.2. Metaphors of Forced Migration: Bodies, Narratives and Policies
1.3. Education in the Context of Forced Migration: Examples from the USA, EU and Ukraine
Chapter 2. Conceptualizing Body in the Context of Forced Migration
2.1. Embodied Knowledge through Sensing and Relating
2.2. Forced Migration through the Thinking Body
2.3. Forced Migration through the Event
2.4. Forced Migration through the Materiality of Space
Part 2: Exploring Embodied Knowledge of Education in the Context of the on-going War
Chapter 3. Cyclical Relationship of the Migrant's Body
3.1. Challenges of doing Research in the Context of War
3.2. Role of the Researcher: Ethical, Contextual and other Challenges
Chapter 4. Exploring Forced Migration through the Body
4.1. The Thinking Body
4.2. Perception through Touch: Relational Dynamic of Forced Migration
4.3. Landscape Perception as the Form of Seeing others
Chapter 5. What did the Forced Migrant's Body See?
5.1. Embodied Unveiling Event
5.2. Event-Interruption
5.3. Flash Event
Part 3: Final Thoughts on Embodied Knowledge Possibilities and Challenges
Chapter 6. Challenges and Possibilities of the Embodied Knowledge(s)
6.1. Embodied Knowledge in the Use
6.2. Challenges and Possibilities of Exploring Embodied Knowledge in Forced Migration
