Transforming Learning Through Tangible Instruction The Case For Thinking With Things | Education

Transforming Learning Through Tangible Instruction offers a transformative student-centered approach to higher education pedagogy that integrates embodied cognition into classroom practice. Evidence across disciplines makes clear that people learn with their bodies as well as their brains but no previous book has provided evidence-based guidance for adopting and refining its practice in colleges and universities. Collecting findings from cognitive science educational neuroscience learning theories and beyond this volume’s unique approach-radical yet practical effective yet low-cost-will have profound implications for higher education faculty and administrators engaged in teaching and learning. Seven concise chapters explore how physical objects hands-on making active construction and other elements of body and environment can enhance comprehension memory and individual and collaborative learning. |Transforming Learning Through Tangible Instruction The Case for Thinking With Things | Education