Embodied Learning and Teaching Using the 4e Cognition Approach: Exploring Perspectives in Teaching Practices

This book operationalises the new field - EmLearning - that integrates embodiment and grounded cognition perspectives with education using the 4E approach as a guiding principle, which suggests that cognition is embodied, embedded, enacted, or extended.

Chapters highlight empirical data providing readers with research-based insight into the theoretical foundations of embodied cognition in learning, illustrated by practical examples. Ultimately, the volume contributes a radical understanding of embodied cognition, demonstrating the importance of the field to the educational system more broadly, and suggests a fundamental change to the way learning, education, and curriculum design is viewed and considered. Based on contemporary scientific findings, the book addresses the educational area with a focus on opening the embodied approach to a wider audience that will circulate the new knowledge and support their educational practices.

Written with the purpose of contributing to a broad spectrum of academic educational fields, this book will be of importance to postgraduates, researchers, and academics in the fields of higher education, educational psychology, teacher education, and teaching methodology and practice. Teachers and school politicians should also benefit from this volume more broadly.

Theresa Schilhab is Associate Professor in Educational Neuroscience and Evolutionary Epistemology and leads Science Didactics & Nature views, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Camilla Groth is Associate Professor in Arts, Design and Crafts and leads the Embodied Making and Learning Research group (EMAL), University of South-Eastern Norway.