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Improving Students' Learning Performance through Technology-Enhanced Embodied Learning: A Four-Year Investigation in Classrooms
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Kosmas, Panagiotis; Zaphiris, Panayiotis – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Embodied Learning (EL) technologies are now used in educational research as an emerging technology that has the potential to influence the function of the brain to drive learning, especially by integrating the physical body into the learning process. This research examines EL in different learning contexts and circumstances to see how it can…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Technology, Learning Strategies, Elementary School Students
Pedagogy of Movement Integration -- A Threefold Pedagogy Grown through Action Research
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Kasper Lasthein Madsen – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2024
Movement Integration has emerged as a new teaching practice involving infusing physical activity into classroom teaching to support learning. Implementing Movement Integration in primary and lower secondary schools has proven challenging, and teachers need help transforming Movement Integration into meaningful pedagogy. In this article, I examine…
Descriptors: Movement Education, Teaching Methods, Physical Activities, Classroom Techniques
Investigating Learning through Developmental Dance Movement as a Kinaesthetic Tool in the Early Years Foundation Stage
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Golding, Alison; Boes, Claudia; Nordin-Bates, Sanna M. – Research in Dance Education, 2016
The understanding of the significance of movement to learning benefits from advances in neuroscience. This study considered a neurophysiological perspective in relation to the educational theory of Accelerated Learning (AL) for which little empirical evidence exists. Childhood development themes and learning strategies from a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dance Education, Kinesthetic Methods, Preschool Children
Who Benefits from Cooperative Learning with Movement Activity?
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Shoval, Ella; Shulruf, Boaz – School Psychology International, 2011
The goal of this study is to identify learners who are most likely to benefit from a small group cooperative learning strategy, which includes tasks involving movement activities. The study comprised 158 learners from five second and third grade classes learning about angles. The research tools included structured observation of each learner and…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Elementary Education, Learning Strategies, Cooperative Learning
Learning to Learn: A Cognitive Processes Approach to Movement Skills Acquisition.
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Ainsworth, Janet; Fox, Connie – Strategies, 1989
A. M. Gentile's four-step, cognitive process approach to skill acquisition is proposed as preferable for learning movement skills, when compared to the traditional behavioral approach. Five positive outcomes of the cognitive approach are identified, focusing on opportunities for students to engage in skill analysis and creative problem solving.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Models
Enhancing Individual Skills in Dance Composition and Performance Using Cooperative Learning Structures.
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Yoder, Linda – 1992
The purpose of this study, conducted at Mohawk Alternative Middle School (Columbus, Ohio) was: (1) to identify student attitudes about dance and the place of dance in education; (2) to determine the effects of specific cooperative learning structures on the ability of individual students to create their own movement studies; (3) to identify…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cooperative Learning, Cooperative Planning, Cultural Enrichment