The physicality and corporeality of the classroom had never really crossed my mind in the lead up to teaching. Teaching was a mental exercise, learning a cognitive activity. Now, however, it’s the primary conflict in my classroom experience. The mental exertion of lesson planning, activity leading, or lesson planning is certainly present in my life, […]
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Fueling my Students’ Vehicular Bodies
Before reading the McRuer essay, I didn’t put much thought into the metaphorical idea of my student’s (dis)able-bodies. From first meeting my students, I couldn’t tell from outside appearances if any of them were disabled, but I was aware that one of my students is registered with disability services, and really struggles with grammar […]
My Deliberate Physicality and The Ways I Don’t Notice My Students
In the last semester of my undergrad, my public rhetorics class had an assignment where we had to do something public and then analyze the rhetorical moves we were making when doing something publicly (it was a little divergent from the definition of a public purposefully, just in case anyone is concerned about the definitely […]