Being Somatically Coherent While Teaching

• In Event: 29.082 - Roundtable Session 9
  In Roundtable Session: 29.082-9 - Holistic Synergies in Education

Abstract

While teaching, many teachers perceive and mobilize their bodies in limited and rather unconscious ways. Teacher education curricula do not often include the teacher’s “lived body”, a set of inter-related physical, emotional and cognitive sensations. For Johnson (2007), learning and teaching arise from a human being’s bodily experience in relationship with others and the environment.

In this presentation, participants will be lead through experiential activities aimed at developing an increased consciousness of the “lived body”. I have been giving teacher-education workshops on “lived body” and dynamic embodiment in relation to teaching, using somatic approaches. For my thesis, I have also constructed a theoretical framework that combines embodiment theories, phenomenology of practice (van Manen, 2014) and internal∕external coherence (Korthagen, 2004).

Author

• Genevieve Emond, Université du Québec - Montréal