Before birth: what the body begins to learn in the womb
A baby is born already knowing her mother’s voice and the melody of her language. Here is what the body learns before birth, and where the evidence stops.
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Gandhi’s Nai Talim: education through the hand
Gandhi’s Nai Talim put the hand at the centre of school. It saw the body as a way of knowing, and then asked that body to produce.
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 the desk. Embodied cognition asks what we stop when we stop the body.