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Agent, subjection and corporal education: methodological reflections

The aim of this work is to present some methodological implications resulting from adopting a Foucauldian epistemological position to investigate the subject, the body and its possible links with corporal education. To do this I explain the conception of subject and indicate differences aforementioned meaning and use in respect of the proposed Bourdie´s category of agent. Then force between these differences with what I understand are two basic ways of understanding the body; as a means of individuation and instance of objectification of the subject or as a way of subjection and singling. Finally I explain the implications these have different epistemological position constraint for a practice of transmitting knowledge in corporal education.

Corporal education; subject; body; subjection


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