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I’m joined by Guy Claxton (Emeritus Professor of the Learning Sciences at the University of Winchester's Centre for Real-World Learning) and Emily Poel (a Berlin-based embodiment practitioner and trainer). Their new book, Bodies of Learning: How Embodiment Science Transforms Education, is now available.
The book makes a serious, scientific case for putting mind and body back together - not as a wellbeing add-on, not as a few movement breaks in a long sit-down day, but as a different starting point for thinking about what learning is, and what schools are for.
In this conversation, Guy, Emily and I talk about:
Why the mind-body split, traceable from Plato to Descartes, still shapes what schools believe intelligence is.
The 4Es of embodied cognition: enactive, embodied, embedded, extended.
Why doing might be more primary than knowing.
The "body-mind".
Resilience as the willingness to stay intelligently engaged with something difficult.
Epistemic safety in the classroom, and what it asks of teachers.
Embodied leadership - not just as slowing down, but as nuance, discernment and options.
The question they want every reader to sit with: what would an education at which everybody could win actually look like?
Bodies of Learning is available from 26 May - https://www.bodiesoflearning.org/
