The BBC project - Body based classrooms

Despite growing strands of evidence indicate that learning processes can be fostered by making learners cognitively and bodily active, too often school considers learners as passive receivers of knowledge and tends to ignore the role of the body, thereby providing disembodied and too abstract teaching methods We present a project in which experimental evidence on embodied cognition and active learning is used to devise a training for learning from text in primary school children The evidence-based training, which exploits body and sensorimotor information, involves learning of information technology and can be easily incorporated into teaching settings and procedures Both learning in presence and distant learning in Covid era can benefit from bringing the body back into the learning process © 2020 CEUR-WS All rights reserved

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