Teachers and students are provided with the ability of fixing repeated patterns and structures “in the body”. They are able to act without deeper reflections on the circumstances, results and legitimation of their actions, often without being aware of them. This fact combined with the circumstance that corporal expressions are mainly conveyed non-symbolically makes the corporal dimension of learning and teaching one of the central arenas of hidden curriculum at schools. This article shows that the reconstruction of corporal expressions allows to get insight into unspoken dimensions. Implicit communication is often effected within very short sequences and this ‘momentary occurrence’ renders latent phenomena inaccessible to our consciousness and consequently assures their ‘tacitness’. Therefore, the very precise and detailed reconstruction of nonverbal expressions within brief fractions of time reveals significant structures that are decisive for the pedagogical proceeding and for relationship aspects.
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