Practicing Embodied Thinking in Research and Learning

This book delves into the embodied ground of thinking, illuminating the transition from theorizing about the embodied mind to actively practicing embodied thinking in research, teaching and learning. The authors speak from immersing themselves in novel methods that engage the felt, experiential dimensions of cognition in inquiry.

Autorentext

Donata Schoeller is Research Professor, Philosophy, University of Iceland, Iceland.

Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir is Professor of Philosophy, University of Iceland, Iceland.

Greg Walkerden is Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Macquarie School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia.

Inhalt

1. The Leap: the creative and liberatory potential of embodied thinking
   **PART I: FOUNDATIONS

2. Transformative and responsive power: potentials of embodied thinking

3. Vitalizing Critical Thinking: Embodied Critical Thinking in a Philosophical Context

4. Sensing and thinking from within: Aesthetic perception and embodied thinking

PART II: THINKING AT THE EDGE AND FOCUSING

5. Thinking at the Edge and the Production of Knowledge

6. In search of relational imagination: An auto-ethnographic journey through training in Embodied Critical Thinking

7. Refreshing the relationship to research and expanding its meaning: On the use of the TAE process in a micro-phenomenological research project

PART III: MICROPHENOMENOLOGY AND MEDITATION

8. Micro-phenomenology as coming into contact with experience: subtilization, surprises and liberation

9. Understanding experience as ethically sensitive action

10. Multidimensional Mindfulness Trainings and Methods of Embodied Thinking in Universities of the 21st Century

PART IV: EMANCIPATIONS

11. Focusing on Emotions in Climate Education: A Felt Sense of the Climate

12. Embodied Critical Thinking and Environmental Embeddedness: The Sensed Knots of Knowledge*13. Focusing in the School of Architecture: An account of introducing and integrating focusing into the design studio at the Technion

    • 14. Learning to catalyse socio-ecological change: reflective practice experiments *
    • 15. Disciplined thinking, sensuous wisdom