The Joy of Embodied Learning, with Leslie Bayers

Leslie Bayers discusses her chapter in Joy-Centered Pedagogy: The Joy of Embodied Learning on episode 580 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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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

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Resources

• Joy-Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education: Uplifting Teaching & Learning for All, edited by Eileen Camfield (routledge.com/Joy-Centered-Pedagogy-in-Higher-…)

• Katy Bowman (nutritiousmovement.com/about-nutritious-movement)

• Episode 505: How Role Clarity and Boundaries Can Help Us Thrive with Karen Costa (teachinginhighered.com/505)

• Scope of Practice Template, developed by Karen Costa (bit.ly/scopetemplate24)

• An Educator’s Scope of Practice: How Do I Know What’s Mine?, Karen Costa’s Chapter in Trauma-Informed Pedagogies (link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-92…)

• Bend App (bend.com)

• 15 Minute Gentle Morning Yoga (youtu.be/VlUfKp1LKpc?si=QRTYh0FAYuANeWjO)

• Catalina: A Novel, by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (penguinrandomhouse.com/books/696674/catalina-b…)

• On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters, by Bonnie Tsui (hachettebookgroup.com/titles/bonnie-tsui/on-mu…)

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