AVReading October-- Embodied Learning
Our focus this year is on educational research and theory, and its application to classroom practice. Each month, you are invited to join our data blitz during which we sift through volumes of educational research publications looking for studies or writings that look of interest or significance. Over the course of this year’s newsletters, we will take this opportunity to share out some of the studies and writings that we have discovered. I’ve decided to start with a study entitled “Enactive Metaphors: Learning Through Full-Body Engagement” published in Educational Psychology Review (2015). And I have three reasons for doing so. First, it was co-authored by Robb Lindgren, a former AVHS student (Class of 1996) now professor of education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Second, it highlights the exciting and important domain of engagement. And third, it mi...