Moving Ideas

Contents: Mira-Lisa Katz: Growth in Motion: Supporting Young Women's Embodied Identity and Cognitive Development Through Dance After School - Catherine Kroll: Chroma Harmonia: Multimodal Pedagogy Through Universal Design for Learning - David Leventhal: «All the World's a Stage»: Musings on Teaching Dance to People With Parkinson's - Keli Yerian: The Communicative Body in Women's Self-Defense Courses - Erica Tom/Mira-Lisa Katz: Pasture Pedagogy: Field and Classroom Reflections on Embodied Teaching - Nina Haft: 36 Jewish Gestures - Eliot Fintushel: Thinking with Your Skin: Paradoxical Ideas in Physical Theater - Tori Truss/Mira-Lisa Katz: Visceral Literature: Multimodal Theater Activities for Middle and High School English Language Arts - Jill Homan Randall: A Trio: Combining Language, Literacy and Movement in Preschool and Kindergarten Community-Based Dance Classes - Matt Rahaim: The Paramparic Body: Gestural Transmission in Indian Music - Cory Holding/Hannah Bellwoar: Literacies of Touch: Massage Therapy and the Body Composed - Julie Cheville: The Embodiment of Real and Digital Signs: From the Sociocultural to the Intersemiotic.

Currently Professor of English Education and Applied Linguistics at Sonoma State University, Mira-Lisa Katz earned a PhD in education in language, literacy, and culture from the University of California, Berkeley. Katz is the recipient of several awards and has presented her research internationally and published in numerous journals.

This is the book we've all been waiting for, those of us discouraged by text-centric schooling. This is the book we've all been longing for, those educators inspired by the human proclivity and yearning to make meaning within, across, and through a range and combination of semiotic modes, genres, enactments, embodiments, and spaces. Moving Ideas and its 'corporeal pedagogies' artfully, thoughtfully, vividly theorizes and illustrates the role of the body in learning and instruction, showing us how the physical is perforce part and parcel of the intellectual, the aesthetic, the social, the emotional. Kudos to Katz and colleagues for challenging us to admit and celebrate the senses, and to unite the body, reason, and emotion in social science research and educational practice. (Glynda A. Hull, Professor, Graduate School of Education, Division of Language, Literacy and Culture, University of California, Berkeley) Moving Ideas will change the way you think. The contributors cover a wide range of topics - from the relationship of body and mind to the teaching of writing - and do so with passion and insight. A fresh and engaging book. (Mike Rose, Author of The Mind at Work) This collection is about more than embodied learning and multimodality; it is a book about reimagination. Nothing I've read since John Dewey has made me want to teach and learn as much as - Moving Ideas. (Mark Davis, Program Associate, Facing History and Ourselves)

«This is the book we've all been waiting for, those of us discouraged by text-centric schooling. This is the book we've all been longing for, those educators inspired by the human proclivity and yearning to make meaning within, across, and through a range and combination of semiotic modes, genres, enactments, embodiments, and spaces. Moving Ideas and its 'corporeal pedagogies' artfully, thoughtfully, vividly theorizes and illustrates the role of the body in learning and instruction, showing us how the physical is perforce part and parcel of the intellectual, the aesthetic, the social, the emotional. Kudos to Katz and colleagues for challenging us to admit and celebrate the senses, and to unite the body, reason, and emotion in social science research and educational practice.» (Glynda A. Hull, Professor, Graduate School of Education, Division of Language, Literacy and Culture, University of California, Berkeley)
«Moving Ideas will change the way you think. The contributors cover a wide range of topics - from the relationship of body and mind to the teaching of writing - and do so with passion and insight. A fresh and engaging book.» (Mike Rose, Author of The Mind at Work)
«This collection is about more than embodied learning and multimodality; it is a book about reimagination. Nothing I've read since John Dewey has made me want to teach and learn as much as - Moving Ideas.» (Mark Davis, Program Associate, Facing History and Ourselves)