On the Path: Technique, Movement, and Rhythm in Guide Dog Training
The physical and bodily skills of guide dogs are socially and creatively developed through the relationships between dogs and people that take place in different environments throughout their first two years of life. During the socialization and training phases, both the dog’s body and its guide qua...
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I28-R264-article-130462023-07-04T16:52:06Z On the Path: Technique, Movement, and Rhythm in Guide Dog Training No caminho: técnica, movimento e ritmo na formação de cães-guia von der Weid, Olivia interspecific relations technique movement body blindness relações interespecíficas técnica movimento corpo cegueira The physical and bodily skills of guide dogs are socially and creatively developed through the relationships between dogs and people that take place in different environments throughout their first two years of life. During the socialization and training phases, both the dog’s body and its guide quality are developing together. The same process that trains the dog as a guide also trains human beings to a new social and professional identity - that of guide dog trainer and instructor. In this article I present an ethnographic reflection on the process of guide dogs qualification, an animal assistive technology developed to facilitate the mobility of the visually impaired person. Focusing especially on the training phase, I try to understand the trajectory of transformations, the unfolding of events and the changes of movement that make certain dogs able to “graduate” as guides. The guiding technique is understood here as the result of a certain relationship between movements and things, encompassing tools, human and canine bodies and their displacements in different environments. As habilidades físicas e corporais de cães-guia são social e criativamente desenvolvidas por meio das relações entre cães e pessoas que acontecem em diferentes ambientes ao longo dos seus dois primeiros anos de vida. Durante as fases de socialização e treinamento, tanto o organismo do cão quanto a sua qualidade de guia estão se desenvolvendo juntos. O mesmo processo que forma o cão como guia também habilita seres humanos a uma nova identidade social e profissional – a de treinador e instrutor de cães-guia. No artigo apresento uma reflexão etnográfica sobre o processo de formação de cães-guia, uma tecnologia assistiva animal desenvolvida para facilitar a mobilidade da pessoa com deficiência visual. Focando especialmente na fase de treinamento, procuro compreender a trajetória das transformações, o desenrolar dos eventos e as mudanças de movimento que vão tornando certos cães aptos a se “graduarem” como guias. A técnica de guiar é aqui entendida como resultado de uma certa relação entre movimentos e coisas, abarcando ferramentas, corpos humanos e caninos e seus deslocamentos em diferentes ambientes. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires 2023-06-30 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/rtt/article/view/13046 10.34096/rtt.i28.13046 Revista Transporte y Territorio; Núm. 28 (2023): Enero-Junio; 34-55 1852-7175 spa http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/rtt/article/view/13046/11480 http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/rtt/article/view/13046/11531 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
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On the Path: Technique, Movement, and Rhythm in Guide Dog Training |
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The physical and bodily skills of guide dogs are socially and creatively developed through the relationships between dogs and people that take place in different environments throughout their first two years of life. During the socialization and training phases, both the dog’s body and its guide quality are developing together. The same process that trains the dog as a guide also trains human beings to a new social and professional identity - that of guide dog trainer and instructor. In this article I present an ethnographic reflection on the process of guide dogs qualification, an animal assistive technology developed to facilitate the mobility of the visually impaired person. Focusing especially on the training phase, I try to understand the trajectory of transformations, the unfolding of events and the changes of movement that make certain dogs able to “graduate” as guides. The guiding technique is understood here as the result of a certain relationship between movements and things, encompassing tools, human and canine bodies and their displacements in different environments. |
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