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.

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

Resources

• Joy-Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education: Uplifting Teaching & Learning for All, edited by Eileen Camfield
• Katy Bowman
• Episode 505: How Role Clarity and Boundaries Can Help Us Thrive with Karen Costa
• Scope of Practice Template, developed by Karen Costa
• An Educator’s Scope of Practice: How Do I Know What’s Mine?, Karen Costa’s Chapter in Trauma-Informed Pedagogies
• Bend App
• 15 Minute Gentle Morning Yoga
• Catalina: A Novel, by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters, by Bonnie Tsui