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Minding bodies : how physical space, sensation, and movement affect learning / Susan Hrach

Author
Hrach, Susan
Published
Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2021.
Copyright Date
©2021
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvii, 204 pages ) : illustrations
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Awaken the senses. Optimize the classroom -- Take it outside -- Leveraging the body for learning. Interrogate sensory perceptions -- Learn to move, move to learn -- Break through boundaries. Move around together -- Embrace discomfort.
Summary
What happens to teaching when you consider the whole body (and not just "brains on sticks")? Starting from new research on the body--aptly summarized as "sitting is the new smoking"--Minding Bodies aims to help instructors improve their students' knowledge and skills through physical movement, attention to the spatial environment, and sensitivity to humans as more than "brains on sticks." It shifts the focus of adult learning from an exclusively mental effort toward an embodied, sensory-rich experience, offering new strategies to maximize the effectiveness of time spent learning together on campus as well as remotely. Minding Bodies draws from a wide range of body/mind research in cognitive psychology, kinesiology, and phenomenology to bring a holistic perspective to teaching and learning. The embodied learning approaches described by Susan Hrach are inclusive, low-tech, low-cost strategies that deepen the development of disciplinary knowledge and skills. Campus change-makers will also find recommendations for supporting a transformational mission through an attention to students' embodied learning experiences.
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ISBN
9781952271007 (electronic bk.)
1952271002 (electronic bk.)
9781949199987 cloth
9781949199994 paperback
1949199983
1949199991
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text file
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index.
Biographical or Historical Sketch
Susan Hrach is director of the faculty center and professor of English at Columbus State University. Winner of the University System of Georgia Regents' Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award, she is widely recognized for her innovations in teaching world literature.
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