The fashion model as pedagogue
(2001) The fashion model as pedagogue, in Singh, Parlo and McWilliam, Erica L., Eds. Designing educational research: Theories, methods and practices, chapter 7, pages pp. 83-94. Post Pressed.
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Abstract
This paper analyses the literature that investigates how the body of the fashion model impacts on young girls. It highlights how fashion model bodies are situated in this research as disorderly catalysts in the lives of young girls and, in doing so, will argue that this research is limited by particular epistemological assumptions about female bodies as disorderly bodies. It shows that existing accounts may too easily overlook the degree of precision with which young girls read the body of the fashion model. The paper thereby suggests that it may be useful to re-conceptualise the fashion model/young girl relationship as pedagogical work in order to account for the precise ways that young girls engage with fashion model bodies. Demonstrating that the fashion model is unthinkable as an effective female teacher, the work argues that it may be possible to think of her as an efficient pedagogue of precise bodily knowledge. Drawing briefly on accounts of pedagogical relationships in pre-modern history, the paper illustrates how the fashion model may be thinkable as an effective transmitter of embodied knowing.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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| Status: | Published |
| Place of Publication: | Flaxton, Qld |
| Keywords: | fashion model, pedagogue, teacher, young girl, young girl, learning, pedagogy, learn, instruct, teach, disorder, female bodies, precision, knowledge, spectacle, discipline, Foucault, embodiment, embodied pedagogy, embodied teaching, premodern, bodily knowing, bodily knowledge, pathological |
| Subjects: | 400000 Journalism, Librarianship and Curatorial Studies > 400100 Journalism, Communication and Media > 400104 Communication and Media Studies 420000 Language and Culture > 420300 Cultural Studies > 420303 Culture, Gender, Sexuality 420000 Language and Culture > 420300 Cultural Studies 330000 Education > 330100 Education Studies 370000 Studies in Human Society > 370100 Sociology |
| ID Code: | 11655 |
| Deposited By: | Dwyer, Angela E |
| Deposited On: | 09 January 2008 |
| Alternative Locations: | http://www.postpressed.com.au/ |
| Copyright Owner: | Copyright 2002 Post Pressed |
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