Moving Ideas Multimodality and Embodied Learning in Communities and Schools New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies 1st editon by Katz, Mira Lisa 145419975X 9781454199755

Foreword: Ideas Do Move

Poem: “The Body Is the Text”

Introduction

The Primacy of Movemen

Insights from Multimodal Research and Practice

Embodied Literacies, Corporeal Pedagogies

Bodily Learning and Knowing: Struggle and Possibility

Feeling and Thought: Emotion and Reason

Embodied Thinking: Neuroscientific Understandings of Emotion and Reason

Reframing the Debate

At Our Fingertips: The Role of Gesture in Teaching and Learning

Chapter Summaries

Resomaticizing Learning

Notes

Works Cited

1. Growth in Motion: Supporting Young Women’s Embodied Identity and Cognitive Development Through Dance After School

Cognitive and Attitudinal Benefits of Arts After School

Embodied Cognition and Multimodal Learning

Self and Identity

Studying Dance as an Educational Context

Methods

Context

How Dance Shapes Lives

Developing a Sense of Control

Taking the Long View of Their Own Development

A Supportive, Communal Learning Environment

Multimodal Teaching and Learning

Taking Chances

Multiple Modes, Trust, and Education

Notes

Works Cited

2. Chroma Harmonia: Multimodal Pedagogy Through Universal Design for Learning

Introduction

The Context and The Need for Universal Design for Learning

Heart-To-Hearts and Hands-On Grammar

Conclusion: Toward an Embodied Grammar

Notes

Works Cited

3. “All the World’s a Stage”: Musings on Teaching Dance to People With Parkinson’s

A Dance Class Grows in Brooklyn

The Importance of Place

Swans on a Red Carpet

Aesthetics, Choreography, and The Realm of the Possible

The Empowering Gaze

A Community of Learners

Notes

Works Cited

4. The Communicative Body in Women’s Self-Defense Courses

Introduction

Embodiment and Gender in Interaction

Matching Words and Body Consciously: Constructing Coherent Stances

Intonation Within a Multimodal Stance

Integrating Awareness and Action In The Role-Plays

Constructing Coherent Stances of Compliance

Conflicts Across Modalities: Noticing Interactional ‘Dissonance’ in Others

When It’s Someone You Know: Recognizing Multimodal Dissonance in Familiars

Conclusion

Appendix: Transcription Conventions

Note

Acknowledgments

Works Cited

5. Pasture Pedagogy: Field and Classroom Reflections on Embodied Teaching

Cross-Talk in the Classroom

The Nature of the Horse: Deepening an Awareness of Body Language

Reading Body Language as Part of a “Listening Stance”

The Farm: Working With Feral Horses

Gentling Yearlings: a Listening Approach to Halter Breaking

Reading to Reassess: Creating Comfortable Environments for Curiosity and Choice

Reading Fear: When “Misbehaving” Makes Sense

The Apprentice Program: Diana’s First Day

Longe Lesson: Consciously Reading and Enacting Body Language

Eye to Eye: Observing Diana’s Growth

Resonances in Reading Across Contexts

The Significance of Space in the Classroom

Embodying Language in Learning

Organizing Dynamics in Learning

Into the Composition Classroom & Considering Texts

“Boring” Texts: Following Angelica’s Lead

Reading With and Against the Grain, of Students, Horses, and Text

Reading to Connect

Holistic Teaching: Reading in Riding, Reading and Writing

Notes

Works Cited

6. 36 Jewish Gestures

Gesture as a Form of Identity: Jewish in the Mirror

Matching Meaning and Movement

Gesture as World View: 36 Jewish Gestures

Jewish Gesture On the Silver Screen

Performing Identity: Gesture and Place

Audiences Respond

Gesture as Teaching and Learning Tool: Modeling Movement

Conclusion: Gesture, Teaching, and Power

Notes

Works Cited

7. Thinking with Your Skin: Paradoxical Ideas in Physical Theater

Works Cited

8. Visceral Literature: Multimodal Theater Activities for Middle and High School English Language Arts

Food is Love: Story is Nourishment

The Power of Live Performance

Integrating Awareness Through Listening and Play

Personal Transformation in the Student

Transforming Literature

Fostering Theater in Secondary and Post-Secondary Classrooms

Making Literature Accessible to the Specific Needs of the Group

Safety and Risk-Taking in the Classroom

Notes

Works Cited

9. A Trio: Combining Language, Literacy and Movement in Preschool and Kindergarten Community-Based Dance Classes

Introduction

My Personal History and Dance Education Background

A Sample Lesson Plan

21 Weeks and Five Big Ideas

First Idea: Naming Movement

A Complete Circle: Improvising, Capturing in Words, “Saying Back” to Students, and Dancing Again

Second Idea: Using Verbal Prompts to Inspire Movement

Third Idea: Using Written Language as a Springboard For Dance

Lists of Words

Books

Fourth Idea: Using Names to Acknowledge Each Dancer

Fifth Idea: Rhythm And Play With Nursery (And Other) Rhymes

Inviting Parents to Class: the Final Sharing in Week 21

Conclusion: Pairing Literacy and Movement in Dance Classes

Appendix A: Organizations Referenced

Notes

Works Cited

10. The Paramparic Body: Gestural Transmission in Indian Music

Teaching Lineages

Processes of Gestural Transmission

Inheritance and Volition

The Paramparic Body

Ethical Practice and the Paramparic Body

Notes

Works Cited

11. Literacies of Touch: Massage Therapy and the Body Composed

Body Writing

Point of Contact

Mapping the Body

Engaging Bodies

A Subtle Connection

The Pedagogy of Touch

Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

12. The Embodiment of Real and Digital Signs: From the Sociocultural to the Intersemiotic

Human Bodies as Spatially Situated Signs in Real Activity

Digital Images as Spatially Situated Signs and the Neural Correlates of Action Observation

Implications for the Intersemiotic Analysis of New Media Literacies

Works Cited

Conributors