Embodied Learning for early and primary science: Key implications from the Move2Learn project (Manches & Mitchell)
Issue 24 | Page 23 | Published Jan 2023
Description
When teachers or children explain science ideas, they often gesture, typically with little awareness of doing so. Over the last twenty years, research has demonstrated the significance of these gestures in revealing the embodied nature of how we think, and the potential to encourage body‐based experiences to support learning – Embodied Learning.
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