Movement matters : how embodied cognition informs teaching and learning / edited by Sheila L. Macrine and Jennifer M.B. Fugate.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Macrine, Sheila L., editor.

Fugate, Jennifer M. B., editor.

Series:

The MIT Press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perceptual-motor learning.

Human body in education.

Cognition in children.

Effective teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Presents the latest research on embodied cognition's applications for educational practices, and offers perspectives on how the relationships among mind, brain, body, and environments impact learning"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

I. Philosophical and Theoretical Background

1. Embodied Cognition and Its Educational Significance

2. Embodied Concepts: Basic Mechanisms and Their Implications for Learning and Memory

3. Embodied, Enactive Education: Conservative versus Radical Approaches

II. Language

4. The Embodiment of Letter Perception: The Importance of Handwriting in Early Childhood

5. Embodied Classroom Activities for Vocabulary Acquisition

6. Educational Applications of Enacted, Embodied Approaches to Language Comprehension

7. Reading, Writing, Technology, and Embodiment

III. Stem

8. Seeing Is Achieving: The Importance of Fingers, Touch, and Visual Thinking to Mathematics Learners

9. Groups That Move Together, Prove Together: Collaborative Gestures and Gesture Attitudes among Teachers Performing Embodied Geometry

10. Manipulatives and Mathematics Learning: The Roles of Perceptual and Interactive Features

11. Physics and Gesture: Spatial Thinking and Mutual Manifestness

IV. Applied Technology

12. Responsive Teaching for Embodied Learning with Technology

13. The Need for SpEED: Reimagining Accessibility through Special Education Embodied Design

14. Immersive Learning Experiences in Augmented Reality (AR): Visualizing and Interacting with Magnetic Fields

15. Evaluating Embodied Immersive STEM VR Using the Quality of Education in Virtual Reality Rubric (QUIVRR)

V. Social Cognition, Emotion, Mindfulness

16. Mirror Neurons and Social Implications for the Classroom

17. Beyond the Social Domain: Autism Spectrum Traits and the Embodiment of Manipulable Object Concepts

18. Embodied Emotion, Emotional Granularity, and Mindfulness: Improved Learning in the Classroom

Conclusion

Resources.

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780262368988

0262368986

9780262368995

0262368994

OCLC:

1286682783