Education’s Kinetic Futures

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Abstract

As artificial intelligence assails cognitive tasks once exclusively human, educators face fundamental questions about what remains distinctively valuable in human learning. Through posthumanist theoretical lenses, this paper examines kinetic intelligence—the embodied wisdom of movement, sensation, and somatic experience—as crucial to pedagogical futures. It explores how Cartesian dualism systematically devalued corporeal ways of knowing and as cognitive functions transfer to machines, asks us to rethink the learning body—recentering movement, catharsis, affect, and jouissance. The analysis advances kinetic pedagogy, repositioning disciplines such as kinesiology, exercise science, and sports psychology from academic periphery to curricular center. This framework reconceptualizes AI as technological collaborator within expanded learning ecosystems privileging irreducible human capacities while providing practical blueprints for body-centered transformation.

Author

• Joshua Newman, Florida State University