Abstract:

The history of educational body, based on the history of the body, examines the body changes of education participants and their influence on education and society, which reflects the return to the origin of education history and to the pursuit of life care for the education participants. Of course, the history of educational body, as an emerging research focus, does not occur overnight. It reflects the need and the pursuit of the study of educational history, which concerns people’s life experiences, promoted by the existing achievements and theories of the philosophy, history, education, sociology, psychology and anthropology. Some underlying disciplines like the philosophy of the body, the body history, physical education science research provide solid theoretical support for the research of the history of educational body. Meanwhile, their attention to and discussion on the body are helpful to clarify the nature and attributes of body in the research on the history of educational body. Based on this, it’s essential to form a comprehensive understanding of the participants, beyond the binary opposition mode of body and spirit. The discussion on body in those disciplines helps to clarify the need that education participants should return to the center of educational activities in the research of the educational body. Besides, the body is no longer limited to the flesh from the perspective of biology and medicine, but a physical and spiritual unity which carries abundant social meaning and understanding of the world. This epistemology resulting from these disciplines has contributed to the development of the history of educational body, which in turn led to the basic ideas behind the focus on the education participants’ body and their life. All this has provided a basis for the analysis of the feeling and experience in education. In addition, it helps to explore the rich social significance for education participants’ body and social and other interaction. Also, such body types as the division of time, space, state of gender, and the state of consumption in these disciplines as well as the research on the body appendages, physical senses and emotions, body disease, the application of fieldwork, ethnography and the research methods, are helpful to researchers in writing the history of educational body. This can help better determine the research framework, enrich the research methods, and pay more attention to the real feeling of the research participants. Taking the body as the foundation, researchers can return to the life care for education participants, and eventually writes the history of education for the presence of people and the human body. In short, as a new field of research, the research of the history of educational body, drawing on the relevant research resource such as philosophy, history, education, anthropology, aesthetics and sociology, will offer some guidance for those who work on history of educational body.

Key words: the history of educational body, academic support, life care