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From diverse angles, the individual chapters outline and enter into a constructive and creative in-fight with classical and contemporary thinking and theory concerning body/embodiment and learning. From this outset, new perspectives are developed and presented, and the reader is offered overviews, insights and theoretical thinking-technologies about how it is possible to understand – and analytically engage with – body and learning. A number of the articles draw on empirical research. Thereby, the reader is invited to put the theoretical discussions to work in social practice/the lived everyday in various educational contexts.

We furthermore invite the reader to regard the anthology as “a de-/collage”. At the risk of wearing out a well-worn metaphor, by collage we want to underline the bringing together of disparate elements, of presenting a field that could have been outlined otherwise, and in this regard, though it presents a ‘body’ (that we proudly present) it is still to be taken as relatively unfinished and unfixed: The anthology is in no way exhaustive of the possibilities to think the intersections of body and learning – and the “de-” in the collage is put there in order not to become ‘stuck’ with a metaphor/image that could simultaneously be understood as a ‘finished entity’. The dé-/collage is an invitation to the reader both to take on and to ‘tear up’ the image/field presented – since décollage (in English: “take-off” or “to become unstuck”) in art, is the opposite of collage: instead of an image (/field) built up of parts of existing images, a decollage is created by cutting, tearing away or otherwise removing pieces of an already existing image.

Folded within these considerations is furthermore a modesty regarding the fact, that as it turned out, the articles are primarily produced from within “The global suburbs of Scandinavia”. Certainly this has an impact on the level of generalisation and ‘transferability’ of some of the insights of the chapters. Thus, we invite the reader to such ‘double-movement’; dé-/collage.