July 25, 2008

The Sensuous Classroom: Focusing on the Embodiment of Learning

By SUZANNE M. KELLY

Not long ago, a soon-to-be-minted Ph.D. sat in on one of my women's-studies classes, placing herself in the midst of the undergraduates. Afterward the two of us stayed behind to discuss her impressions of the class. "I'd forgotten what it's like to sit with them," she said.

I nodded in agreement, and she smiled slightly. I could see she wanted to say something else, so I probed. "What else did you think?"

"Well," she said, "I'd also forgotten how they smell!"

I'm still

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