The body and educational intervention

Abstract

We have been deprived not only of the land, but also of our own bodies, which are being dismantled by western culture through the contraposition of once unitarian conceptions of body-mind and emotion-action. In this way, the productive force that constitutes humankind itself and allows it to transform its being in the world becomes alienated.

As teachers, researchers, and educational intervenors with nearly 20 years of experience, we have used the body as a learning space, and dance as a therapeutic and pedagogic tool for educational intervention. This praxis will help us reclaim the esthetical joy of our own bodies and to participate in the collective work of social intervention that addresses and transforms the complex web of problems that the current crisis imposes on all of us.