1st Edition

Practicing Embodied Thinking in Research and Learning

246 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

246 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

This book delves into the embodied ground of thinking, illuminating the transition from theorising about the embodied mind to actively practising embodied thinking in research, teaching, and learning. The authors speak from immersing themselves in novel methods that engage the felt, experiential dimensions of cognition in inquiry. The turn to embodiment has sparked the development of new... Read more

1. The Leap: the creative and liberatory potential of embodied thinking
Donata Schoeller, Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir and Greg Walkerden

PART I: FOUNDATIONS

2. Transformative and responsive power: potentials of embodied thinking
Donata Schoeller

3. Vitalizing Critical Thinking: Embodied Critical Thinking in a Philosophical Context
Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir and Elsa Haraldsdóttir

4. Sensing and thinking from within: Aesthetic perception and embodied thinking
Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir

PART II: THINKING AT THE EDGE AND FOCUSING

5. Thinking at the Edge and the Production of Knowledge
Kevin C. Krycka

6. In search of relational imagination: An auto-ethnographic journey through training in Embodied Critical Thinking
Katrin Heimann and Dorothe Bach

7. Refreshing the relationship to research and expanding its meaning: On the use of the TAE process in a micro-phenomenological research project
Magali Ollagnier-Beldame and Véronique Servais

PART III: MICROPHENOMENOLOGY AND MEDITATION

8. Micro-phenomenology as coming into contact with experience: subtilization, surprises and liberation
Claire Petitmengin

9. Understanding experience as ethically sensitive action
Toma Strle and Urban Kordeš

10. Multidimensional Mindfulness Trainings and Methods of Embodied Thinking in Universities of the 21st Century
Mike Sandbothe, Reyk Albrecht and Thomas Corrinth

PART IV: EMANCIPATIONS

11. Focusing on Emotions in Climate Education: A Felt Sense of the Climate
Ole Martin Sandberg

12. Embodied Critical Thinking and Environmental Embeddedness: The Sensed Knots of Knowledge
Anne Sauka

13. Focusing in the School of Architecture: An account of introducing and integrating focusing into the design studio at the Technion
Ram Eisenberg

14. Learning to catalyse socio-ecological change: reflective practice experiments
Greg Walkerden

15. Disciplined thinking, sensuous wisdom
Donata Schoeller, Greg Walkerden and Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir