SFB - Sonderforschungsbereich Kulturen des Performativen

PROJECT OUTLINE:

Fourth Phase of Project (2008–2010):

Following up on our previous research, we will now investigate the meaning and potential of gestures in educational contexts. Our previous research showed that gestures in educational contexts play an important role in conveying and acquiring knowledge and that the body functions as a medium for cognition and is able to acquire practical knowledge through mimetic comprehension. Our research for the project's 2008 to 2010 phase will focus on the hitherto largely neglected educational potential of gestures. In this context, gestures are defined as repeatable movements of the body or of body parts. They describe practices of physical acting that gain significance in the fundamentally unfinished process of generating meaning in pedagogical contexts. We aim to explore the commonalities and differences of gestures in processes of conveying knowledge and rules of social behaviour in the four fields of socialization. Furthermore, we seek to determine how the performative effects of educational gestures differ because of their diverse institutional embedding.

We will investigate how gestures in educational contexts render visible the bodies of teachers and students as a medium for conveying knowledge, thus determining social communication in the fields of socialization (school, family, peer culture, and use of media) as practices of physical behaviour. We will analyze how gestures become educational and reveal their effectiveness not just intentionally but also by chance within the narrower educational framework of the school and the more open contexts of learning, instruction, and education in families, peer cultures, and practices of using the media.

>> Sub-project: Schools

>> Sub-project: Family

>> Sub-project: Media

>> Sub-project: Youth culture

ARCHIVE

The Emergence of Learning Cultures through Rituals and Ritualization. (2005-2007)

>> Former Abstract

The Emergence of the Social in Rituals and Ritualizations. (1999-2004)

>> Former Abstract

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	B5 Educational Gestures in School, Family, Youth Culture, and Media
	PROJECT OUTLINE: Fourth Phase of Project (2008–2010): Following up on our previous research, we will now investigate the meaning and potential of gestures in educational contexts. Our previous research showed that gestures in educational contexts play an important role in conveying and acquiring knowledge and that the body functions as a medium for cognition and is able to acquire practical knowledge through mimetic comprehension. Our research for the project's 2008 to 2010 phase will focus on the hitherto largely neglected educational potential of gestures. In this context, gestures are defined as repeatable movements of the body or of body parts. They describe practices of physical acting that gain significance in the fundamentally unfinished process of generating meaning in pedagogical contexts. We aim to explore the commonalities and differences of gestures in processes of conveying knowledge and rules of social behaviour in the four fields of socialization. Furthermore, we seek to determine how the performative effects of educational gestures differ because of their diverse institutional embedding. We will investigate how gestures in educational contexts render visible the bodies of teachers and students as a medium for conveying knowledge, thus determining social communication in the fields of socialization (school, family, peer culture, and use of media) as practices of physical behaviour. We will analyze how gestures become educational and reveal their effectiveness not just intentionally but also by chance within the narrower educational framework of the school and the more open contexts of learning, instruction, and education in families, peer cultures, and practices of using the media. >> Sub-project: Schools >> Sub-project: Family >> Sub-project: Media >> Sub-project: Youth culture ARCHIVE The Emergence of Learning Cultures through Rituals and Ritualization. (2005-2007) >> Former Abstract The Emergence of the Social in Rituals and Ritualizations. (1999-2004) >> Former Abstract \| oben \| Projektliste \| Homepage \| SUCHEN \| Stand: 8/27/08