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Knowing bodies, moving minds : towards embodied teaching and learning / edited by Liora Bresler.

Contributor(s): Bresler, Liora [editor].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Landscapes: v. 3Publisher: Dordrecht [Netherlands] ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: xiii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781402020223 (paperback); 140202021X (hardback).Subject(s): Education -- Philosophy | Mind and body | Movement education | Arts -- Study and teachingDDC classification: 370.1
Contents:
Foreword / Alma Gottlieb -- Prelude / Liora Bresler -- Section 1 : Cultural and philosophical contexts for embodied knowledge in education -- Education and the philosophy of the body : bodies of knowledge and knowledges of the body / Michael Peters -- Cognition and the body : perspectives from music education / Wayne Bowman -- Somaesthetics and education : exploring the terrain / Richard Shusterman -- Embodied movement knowledge in fitness and exercise education / Pirkko Markula -- Changing body in Southern Africa : a perspective from ethnomusicology / Minette Mans -- Frog boy and the American monkey : the body in Japanese early schooling / Daniel J. Walsh -- Disappearance of the body in early childhood education / Joseph Tobin -- Section 2 : The Body in educational settings -- Dancing the curriculum : exploring the body and movement in elementary schools / Liora Bresler -- My body/myself : lessons from dance education / Susan W. Stinson -- Instructable body : student bodies from classrooms to prisons / Janice Ross -- Apprenticeship of embodied knowledge in a Taiko drumming ensemble / Kimberly Powell -- Embodied knowledge : possibilities and constraints in arts education and curriculum / Judith Davidson -- Exercise : identity collage / Charles R. Garoian.
Summary: "This book aims to define new theoretical, practical, and methodological directions in educational research centered on the role of the body in teaching and learning. Based on our phenomenological experience of the world, it draws on perspectives from arts-education and aesthetics, as well as curriculum theory, cultural anthropology and ethnomusicology. These are arenas with a rich untapped cache of experience and inquiry that can be applied to the notions of schooling, teaching and learning. The book provides examples of state-of-the-art, empirical research on the body in a variety of educational settings. Diverse art forms, curricular settings, educational levels, and cultural traditions are selected to demonstrate the complexity and richness of embodied knowledge as they are manifested through institutional structures, disciplines, and specific practices." -- Back cover.
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This book aims to define new theoretical, practical, and methodological directions in educational research centered on the role of the body in teaching and learning. Based on our phenomenological experience of the world, it draws on perspectives from arts-education and aesthetics, as well as curriculum theory, cultural anthropology and ethnomusicology. These are arenas with a rich untapped cache of experience and inquiry that can be applied to the notions of schooling, teaching and learning.
The book provides examples of state-of-the-art, empirical research on the body in a variety of educational settings. Diverse art forms, curricular settings, educational levels, and cultural traditions are selected to demonstrate the complexity and richness of embodied knowledge as they are manifested through institutional structures, disciplines, and specific practices.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Alma Gottlieb -- Prelude / Liora Bresler -- Section 1 : Cultural and philosophical contexts for embodied knowledge in education -- Education and the philosophy of the body : bodies of knowledge and knowledges of the body / Michael Peters -- Cognition and the body : perspectives from music education / Wayne Bowman -- Somaesthetics and education : exploring the terrain / Richard Shusterman -- Embodied movement knowledge in fitness and exercise education / Pirkko Markula -- Changing body in Southern Africa : a perspective from ethnomusicology / Minette Mans -- Frog boy and the American monkey : the body in Japanese early schooling / Daniel J. Walsh -- Disappearance of the body in early childhood education / Joseph Tobin -- Section 2 : The Body in educational settings -- Dancing the curriculum : exploring the body and movement in elementary schools / Liora Bresler -- My body/myself : lessons from dance education / Susan W. Stinson -- Instructable body : student bodies from classrooms to prisons / Janice Ross -- Apprenticeship of embodied knowledge in a Taiko drumming ensemble / Kimberly Powell -- Embodied knowledge : possibilities and constraints in arts education and curriculum / Judith Davidson -- Exercise : identity collage / Charles R. Garoian.

"This book aims to define new theoretical, practical, and methodological directions in educational research centered on the role of the body in teaching and learning. Based on our phenomenological experience of the world, it draws on perspectives from arts-education and aesthetics, as well as curriculum theory, cultural anthropology and ethnomusicology. These are arenas with a rich untapped cache of experience and inquiry that can be applied to the notions of schooling, teaching and learning. The book provides examples of state-of-the-art, empirical research on the body in a variety of educational settings. Diverse art forms, curricular settings, educational levels, and cultural traditions are selected to demonstrate the complexity and richness of embodied knowledge as they are manifested through institutional structures, disciplines, and specific practices." -- Back cover.