The Joy of Embodied Learning
Update: 2025-07-24
Description
Leslie Bayers discusses her chapter in Joy-Centered Pedagogy: The Joy of Embodied Learning on episode 580 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I certainly wasn’t taught body literacy in school, and what I mean by that is how to read the internal signals that the body might be communicating.
-Leslie Bayers
We feel and think better when we move.
-Leslie Bayers
I try to get students moving or engaged with sensory textures as much as possible to spark learning.
-Leslie Bayers
How we feel absolutely shapes if and how we learn. And many of us feel this in our bodies.
-Leslie Bayers
Learning is incredibly hard work. It’s one of the things that does drain the body of energy.
-Leslie Bayers
Resources
- Joy-Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education: Uplifting Teaching & Learning for All, edited by Eileen Camfield
- Katy Bowman
- Episode 505: How Role Clarity and Boundaries Can Help Us Thrive with Karen Costa
- Scope of Practice Template, developed by Karen Costa
- An Educator’s Scope of Practice: How Do I Know What’s Mine?, Karen Costa’s Chapter in Trauma-Informed Pedagogies
- Bend App
- 15 Minute Gentle Morning Yoga
- Catalina: A Novel, by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters, by Bonnie Tsui
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