Moving Ideas

Multimodality and Embodied Learning in Communities and Schools

Mira-Lisa Katz, Michele Knobel, Colin Lankshear

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781433122088
• eBook ISBN:
  9781453910924
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Pedagogía
• Subtopic: Educación de adultos

What does it look and feel like to communicate, create, compose, comprehend, teach, and learn with our bodies? Reaching beyond existing scholarship on multimodality and literacies, Moving Ideas expands our capacity to understand the embodied dimensions of learning and stretches our repertoires for more artfully describing them. Wresting language away from its historically privileged place at the center of social science research and practice, this collection examines the strategic layering across semiotic modes, challenging educators and researchers to revisit many of our most elemental assumptions about communication, learning, and development. The corporeal pedagogies these authors describe illuminate a powerful kind of learning that we know far too little about; in this age of accountability and high-stakes testing, failing to pay adequate attention to the promise of multimodality means forfeiting significant resources that could be used to innovatively engage people of all ages in education broadly conceived.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Moving Ideas
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword: Ideas Do Move
• Introduction
• Chapter One: Growth in Motion: Supporting Young Women’s Embodied Identity and Cognitive Development Through Dance After School
• Chapter Two: Chroma Harmonia: Multimodal Pedagogy Through Universal Design for Learning
• Chapter Three: “All the World’s a Stage”: Musings on Teaching Dance to People With Parkinson’s
• Chapter Four: The Communicative Body in Women’s Self-Defense Courses
• Chapter Five: Pasture Pedagogy: Field and Classroom Reflections on Embodied Teaching
• Chapter Six: 36 Jewish Gestures
• Chapter Seven: Thinking With Your Skin: Paradoxical Ideas in Physical Theater
• Chapter Eight: Visceral Literature: Multimodal Theater Activities for Middle and High School English Language Arts
• Chapter Nine: A Trio: Combining Language, Literacy and Movement in Preschool and Kindergarten Community-based Dance Lessons
• Chapter Ten: The Paramparic Body: Gestural Transmission in Indian Music
• Chapter Eleven: Literacies of Touch: Massage Therapy and the Body Composed
• Chapter Twelve: The Embodiment of Real and Digital Signs: From the Sociocultural to the Intersemiotic
• Contributors