The Body Curriculum

Roots

Why the body is central to learning. Sixty articles in five strands.

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Strand 1

4E concepts

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  1. 01Embodied cognition: why thinking is not only in the headComing
  2. 02Enaction: knowing as a form of doingComing
  3. 03Affordances: what a classroom invites a child to doComing
  4. 04Body schema: the body a child learns withComing
  5. 05Embedded cognition: why the room teaches before the teacher speaksComing
  6. 06The extended mind: when the hand, the slate and the abacus think togetherComing
  7. 07Sensorimotor learning: we learn to see by movingComing
  8. 08Proprioception: the forgotten sense of learningComing
  9. 09Interoception: how hunger, fear and calm shape readiness to learnComing
  10. 10Participatory sense-making: how two bodies understand togetherComing
  11. 11Gesture as thinking: what the hands know before wordsComing
  12. 12Attention is a bodily act, not a mental effortComing
Strand 2

Indian concepts

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  1. 01Kāya: the body as the ground of knowingComing
  2. 02Prāṇa: breath and the rhythm of attentionComing
  3. 03Abhyāsa: practice as the way knowledge enters the bodyComing
  4. 04Saṃskāra: how repetition shapes a learnerComing
  5. 05Rasa: feeling as a way of knowingComing
  6. 06Śraddhā: trust as a condition for learningComing
  7. 07Anubhava: experience as a source of knowledgeComing
  8. 08Jñānendriya and karmendriya: the knowing senses and the acting sensesComing
  9. 09Manas, buddhi, citta: an Indian map of the learning mindComing
  10. 10Pañcakośa: the five sheaths and the whole childComing
  11. 11Kauśala: skill in action as an aim of educationComing
  12. 12Ekāgratā: concentration that is cultivated, not commandedComing
Strand 3

Lineages

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  1. 01Gandhi’s Nai Talim: education through the handComing
  2. 02Tagore at Santiniketan: learning under an open skyComing
  3. 03Gijubhai Badheka: the child who must not be beaten into learningComing
  4. 04Krishnamurti: fear, attention and freedomComing
  5. 05Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: integral and physical educationComing
  6. 06Vivekananda: education as the manifestation of what is already withinComing
  7. 07Montessori: the hand as the instrument of the mindComing
  8. 08Steiner and Waldorf: rhythm, movement and imaginationComing
  9. 09Dewey: experience and educationComing
  10. 10Freire: a pedagogy of freedom with a missing bodyComing
  11. 11Piaget: intelligence begins in movementComing
  12. 12Vygotsky: tools, signs and learning between bodiesComing
Strand 4

The developing body

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  1. 01Before birth: what the body begins to learn in the wombComing
  2. 02Movement before words: crawling, balance and the first two yearsComing
  3. 03The hand: from grasp to pencil gripComing
  4. 04Rhythm: why children learn through beat and repetitionComing
  5. 05Voice: speaking, singing and the body of languageComing
  6. 06Imitation: children learn by becoming othersComing
  7. 07Play: the body's own curriculumComing
  8. 08Touch, safety and the readiness to learnComing
  9. 09Sleep, food and attention: the body behind the report cardComing
  10. 10Emotions are felt first: the body in fear and in joyComing
  11. 11Sitting still: what a young body can and cannot doComing
  12. 12The self-conscious body: learning between 11 and 14Coming
Strand 5

What schooling does to the body

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  1. 01Six hours of sitting: what the chair teachesComing
  2. 02When stillness is mistaken for attentionComing
  3. 03Rote and recitation: when repetition deepens learning and when it empties itComing
  4. 04Exam fear lives in the bodyComing
  5. 05Screens and the young child: what the evidence supportsComing
  6. 06The vanishing playgroundComing
  7. 07Handwriting and typing: what is lost and what isn'tComing
  8. 08Homework and the tired bodyComing
  9. 09Punishment: what discipline teaches the bodyComing
  10. 10Queues, uniforms and assemblies: the hidden curriculum of the bodyComing
  11. 11Literacy and numeracy targets: what the body has to do with themComing
  12. 12Physical education as a "period": how the body got a timetable slotComing

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