Skip to content

Akhil K Singh, PhD

  • The Body Curriculum
    • Roots
    • Practices
    • हिंदी में पढ़ें
  • The book
  • Research
    • My position
    • Publications
    • Lectures
    • Essays
  • Work with me
    • Schools
    • Teacher education
    • Talks and keynotes
    • Research guidance
    • Workshops
    • Internships
    • For parents
  • About
  • Get in touch

imitation

The shared meal as a lesson

November 7, 2026 by Akhil K Singh
Cover for P46

Lunch is often the least planned part of the school day. Here is how to turn the shared meal into a daily lesson in taste, trust and listening to the body.

Categories Practices Tags age-3-6, age-6-8, for-teachers, imitation, interoception Leave a comment

Imitation: children learn by becoming others

November 7, 2026 by Akhil K Singh
Cover for R42

A three-year-old copies her grandmother’s wrist across her forehead while rolling her first roti. What the evidence on imitation shows, where it is disputed, and why a teacher’s body is never neutral.

Categories Roots Tags age-0-3, age-3-6, for-parents, for-teachers, imitation 4 Comments

About

Akhil Kumar Singh, PhD

PhD, IIT Jodhpur · Author, Brill 2025

Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru

Google Scholar ResearchGate ORCID LinkedIn Facebook

Explore

  • The Body Curriculum
  • The book
  • My position
  • Publications
  • Lectures
  • Essays

Work with me

  • Schools
  • Teacher education
  • Talks and keynotes
  • Research guidance
  • Internships
  • For parents

Letters

Occasional letters on embodied learning and Indian education. Twice a month, at most.

Subscribe
Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.
Loading
  • mail@akhilksingh.com
  • Download CV
© 2026 Akhil Kumar SinghViews expressed here are my own.