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The Body Curriculum
Why the body is where learning begins · शरीर का पाठ्यक्रम
A collection of articles on why learning begins in the body, and what follows for the classroom. Roots sets out the foundations, drawing on 4E cognitive science, Indian accounts of body and mind, the educators who saw this first, the developing body, and what schooling does to it. Practices turns them into the ordinary moments of a school day, from arriving to leaving. Every article appears in English and in Hindi.
Roots
Why the body is central to learning. Sixty articles in five strands.
3 of 60 published
- 4E concepts 1/12
- Indian concepts 0/12
- Lineages 1/12
- The developing body 1/12
- What schooling does to the body 0/12
Practices
How a teacher works with the body, moment by moment through the school day.
2 of 60 published
- Arriving and greeting 1/5
- Breath and settling 1/5
- Sitting and posture 0/5
- The hands 0/5
- Voice and language 0/5
- Moving and walking 0/5
- Number through the body 0/5
- Story and drama 0/5
- Silence and attention 0/5
- Eating and caring 0/5
- Play 0/5
- Rest, reflection and leaving 0/5
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Roots · 4E concepts
Embodied cognition: why thinking is not only in the head
A girl's fingers gather two numbers before she can say the answer, and her teacher tells her to keep her hands on…
Practices · Breath and settling
Three breaths before beginning
Children sit down long before they are ready to learn. Three slow breaths, taken together at the start of a lesson, give…
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- Roots · The developing body Before birth: what the body begins to learn in the womb
- Practices · Breath and settling Three breaths before beginning
- Roots · Lineages Gandhi’s Nai Talim: education through the hand
- Practices · Arriving and greeting The threshold: how children cross into the classroom
- Roots · 4E concepts Embodied cognition: why thinking is not only in the head
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