Foundations of Embodied Learning - 9780367349752

Taylor & Francis

Foundations of Embodied LearningA Paradigm for Education\nAuthor(s): Mitchell J. Nathan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367349752, 978-0367349752\nSynopsis\nFoundations of Embodied Learning advances learning, instruction, and the design of educational technologies by rethinking the learner as an integrated system of mind, body, and environment. Body-based processesdirect physical, social, and environmental interactionsare constantly mediating intellectual performance, sensory stimulation, communication abilities, and other conditions of learning. This books coherent, evidence-based framework articulates principles of grounded and embodied learning for design and its implications for curriculum, classroom instruction, and student formative and summative assessment for scholars and graduate students of educational psychology, instructional design and technology, cognitive science, the learning sciences, and beyond.