The complexity that characterises the planetary era requires cognitive paradigms capable of grasping the multidimensionality of the human condition, whose history is inextricably intertwined with that of the ecosystem it inhabits. The reductionist thinking inherited from modernity struggles to read the interdependencies and vital exchanges between living organisations. The body, which through movement explores the surrounding reality, creating meaningful relationships, become a pivotal subject in the rethinking of knowledge. The text analyses the contribution of embodied cognitive science, highlighting the educational challenges resulting from a reversal of the traditional perspective. If educational contexts are mainly structured around the potential of the mind according to a transmissive approach that immobilises the body in favour of learning abstract notions, the individual understood as a unity body-brain-environment requires a systemic vision capable of generating processes of circularity, transformation and relationality. Outlining theories and practices that consider intersubjectivity as central becomes indispensable to overcome an incorporeal and individualistic vision of human experience and to design an ecological coexistence, in which mutual care and responsibility are practised. In this dialogue, the relationship between pedagogy and technologies can involve unprecedented presences, thanks to digital artefacts capable of co-participating in the construction of authentic, felt, embodied knowledge.
La complessità che caratterizza l'era planetaria richiede paradigmi conoscitivi capaci di cogliere la multidimensionalità della condizione umana, la cui storia si intreccia inscindibilmente a quella dell'ecosistema che abita. Il pensiero riduzionista ereditato dalla modernità fatica a leggere le interdipendenze e gli scambi vitali tra organizzazioni viventi. Il corpo, che con il movimento esplora la realtà circostante creando relazioni significative, si configura come soggetto cardine nel ripensamento dei saperi. Il testo analizza l'apporto dell'embodied cognitive science, mettendo in luce le sfide educative che conseguono a un ribaltamento della prospettiva tradizionale. Se i contesti formativi si strutturano prevalentemente attorno alle potenzialità della mente secondo un approccio trasmissivo che immobilizza il corpo in favore dell'apprendimento di nozioni astratte, l'individuo inteso come unità corpo-cervello-ambiente richiede una visione sistemica in grado di generare processi di circolarità, trasformazione, relazionalità. Delineare teorie e prassi che considerino centrale l'intersoggettività diventa indispensabile per superare una visione incorporea e individualista dell'esperienza umana e progettare una convivenza ecologica, in cui praticare cura e responsabilità reciproca. In questo dialogo, il rapporto tra pedagogia e tecnologie può coinvolgere presenze inedite, grazie ad artefatti digitali in grado di co-partecipare alla costruzione di conoscenze autentiche, sentite, embodied.
(2025). Embodied cognition e sfide educative: per una pratica creativa e trasformativa [journal article - articolo]. In JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE METHODOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY IN LEARNING AND TEACHING. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10446/319609
Embodied cognition e sfide educative: per una pratica creativa e trasformativa
Brembilla, Maria
2025-01-01
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The complexity that characterises the planetary era requires cognitive paradigms capable of grasping the multidimensionality of the human condition, whose history is inextricably intertwined with that of the ecosystem it inhabits. The reductionist thinking inherited from modernity struggles to read the interdependencies and vital exchanges between living organisations. The body, which through movement explores the surrounding reality, creating meaningful relationships, become a pivotal subject in the rethinking of knowledge. The text analyses the contribution of embodied cognitive science, highlighting the educational challenges resulting from a reversal of the traditional perspective. If educational contexts are mainly structured around the potential of the mind according to a transmissive approach that immobilises the body in favour of learning abstract notions, the individual understood as a unity body-brain-environment requires a systemic vision capable of generating processes of circularity, transformation and relationality. Outlining theories and practices that consider intersubjectivity as central becomes indispensable to overcome an incorporeal and individualistic vision of human experience and to design an ecological coexistence, in which mutual care and responsibility are practised. In this dialogue, the relationship between pedagogy and technologies can involve unprecedented presences, thanks to digital artefacts capable of co-participating in the construction of authentic, felt, embodied knowledge.| File | Dimensione del file | Formato | |
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