Embodied Learning and Words
I have been thinking a lot about embodiment, but also about how much words and writing have been so impactful to my lived experience, and can reflect embodied reality of folk we share eduspace with. After STLHE and during my bit of time off for Pride, I have been thinking about how I want to return to writing more about what I studied for my dissertation and what continues to preoccupy me: the sensory, tactility, pedagogy, and the architecture of learning spaces, because I think we are at a moment in education where these topics are even more important than they have been since the end of emergency remote teaching. This is why I noted that I want to do a series of blog posts over the summer that focus on the sensory and pedagogy and accessibility. But it occurred to me that before I started such a series it would be important to kind of frame where these thoughts are coming from, in a citational justice origin story context sort of way if you will. Because my focus on embodiment a...