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.
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.
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