Body Knowledge and Curriculum examines student understandings of body knowledge in the context
of creating and interrogating visual art and culture. It illustrates a six-month research study
conducted in an alternative secondary school in a large urban city. During the research project
students created a number of visual art works using a diversity of material explorations as a
means to think through the body as a process of exchange and as a bodied encounter. The book
engages with feminist theories of touch and inter-embodiment questioning the materiality and
lived experiences of the body in knowledge production in order to provoke different ways of
theorizing self other relations in teaching and learning. This volume is important because it
explores the ways in which youth understand the complex textured and often contradictory
discourses of body knowledge and seeks to intentionally create alternative pedagogical and
curricular practices to ones that subscribe to a healthy body model. Additionally enacting
educational research as living inquiry this book is an exemplar of the arts-based methodology
a r tography. Body Knowledge and Curriculum is a valuable text for courses in curriculum theory
art education qualitative research methodologies visual culture and pedagogies and feminist
theory. Appropriate for advanced undergraduate students pre-service teacher education students
and graduate students the book provides an interdisciplinary investigation into body research.
