Bodies of knowledge embodied learning in adult education

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Ace Staff

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Explore the multiple ways adults learn through their bodies. Embodied or somatic learning is a way of learning that relies on the body's knowledge. Our most basic form of learning in childhood is p...

Explore the multiple ways adults learn through their bodies. Embodied or somatic learning is a way of learning that relies on the body's knowledge. Our most basic form of learning in childhood is preverbal; however, traditional schooling forces us to check our bodies at the door, requiring us to sit at a desk and raise our hands, focusing primarily on cognition to the exclusion of other ways of knowing. By the time we reach adulthood, "being in our bodies" is a foreign concept and a source of discomfort for many of us. This volume challenges the dominant paradigm of how knowledge is c

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