Event Title

Co-creating a Safe Learning Environment through Embodied Practice

Location

Hart 116

Start Time

13-5-2016 2:20 PM

End Time

13-5-2016 2:50 PM

Description

A safe learning environment is essential to fostering collaboration, inquiry, engagement with multiple and diverse perspectives, and mutual respect. Through a case study of two Bridgewater State University core courses in World Dance, this presentation examines the impact of embodied practice on co-creating a classroom culture where students can dare to expand thinking, learning and doing.

Students participated in embodied practice where they could experience consciously living in the moment by engaging their bodies, minds, spirits (life-force), and emotions as synergetic processes of learning. Researchers in neuroscience, education and somatic education contend that the mind works with the body/senses and emotions to create meaning and knowledge through intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships. Students used knowledge gained from embodied practice experiences as a basis for co-creating agreements for a safe learning environment in their respective World Dance courses.

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May 13th, 2:20 PM May 13th, 2:50 PM

Co-creating a Safe Learning Environment through Embodied Practice

Hart 116

A safe learning environment is essential to fostering collaboration, inquiry, engagement with multiple and diverse perspectives, and mutual respect. Through a case study of two Bridgewater State University core courses in World Dance, this presentation examines the impact of embodied practice on co-creating a classroom culture where students can dare to expand thinking, learning and doing.

Students participated in embodied practice where they could experience consciously living in the moment by engaging their bodies, minds, spirits (life-force), and emotions as synergetic processes of learning. Researchers in neuroscience, education and somatic education contend that the mind works with the body/senses and emotions to create meaning and knowledge through intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships. Students used knowledge gained from embodied practice experiences as a basis for co-creating agreements for a safe learning environment in their respective World Dance courses.