Document Type
Article
Publication Date
October 2008
Keywords
metaphor, educational discourse
Abstract
This essay concerns the body’s positioning in discussions of teaching, specifically focusing on the authors’ efforts to trace discursive invocations of teachers’ bodies by students reflecting on the teaching vocation. The authors explore, through a series of intertwined autoethnographic narratives, the research process that led them through focus group data collection and analysis, to reflections on students’ metaphorical use of the “teacher’s body” in these focus groups, to (in light of feedback from anonymous reviewers) the role of the authors’ own teachers’ bodies in constituting this research and its implications.
Recommended Citation
Keith Nainby and Deanna Fassett. "Effacement and metaphor: Searching for the body in educational discourse" Faculty Publications (2008).
Comments
This article appeared in Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, volume 4, issue 3, October 2008, and can be found at this link: http://liminalities.net/4-3/effacement.pdf.