Transformative Education: An Embodied Learning Method
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Authors
Ferguson, Fall
Issue Date
2008
Type
Capstone
Language
en
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Abstract
This paper introduces an Embodied Learning Method (ELM) for use in educational settings in which the overarching goals are to promote creativity and personal change in the learner. Because we are embodied beings, our experience of our bodies is the medium through which we attend to physiological, mental, and transpersonal experiences that contribute to personal change. Previous commentators in the fields of transformative and integral education have called for the incorporation of multiple ways of knowing into the learning process; the ELM answers this call. Key principles of the ELM include the human being as a unified whole; connected knowing; the first person agency of the learner; direct experience; flow; presence; and
the "transformative self."