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Embodied learning examples4/14/2024 In four 90-minute lessons, students worked collaboratively to explore different bodily positions that were either steady or unsteady. We share examples of embodied design through two of their case studies:Ĭase Study # 1: In a dance studio, Zohar facilitated students as they learned about two concepts related to balance: area of support and center of mass. Then, they reflected on their experiences through the lens of the relevant physics ideas. Their pedagogical design engaged students in physical experiences in which they coordinated movements to enact concepts. Roni Zohar and colleagues utilized an embodied design approach to support students’ understanding of high-school concepts in physics. Through embodied design, science learning can become a more inclusive, participatory, and humanizing process, both in what is learned and how it is learned. In fact, scientific knowledge that resides in the head may not be superior to that which is embodied through action, and often represented through muscle memory, instinct, visual mapping, or ways of moving. Embodied design principles are concerned with immersive, full-body thinking and knowing, where physical movement is a natural part of learning.Īdditionally, embodied design for learning challenges traditional and common practices that privilege certain ways of knowing over others. Embodied learning is not a stylistic preference like visual or kinesthetic learning styles.
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