The role of embodied cognition for transforming learning

@article{Fugate2019TheRO,
  title={The role of embodied cognition for transforming learning},
  author={Jennifer M. B. Fugate and Sheila Landers Macrine and Christina Cipriano},
  journal={International Journal of School \& Educational Psychology},
  year={2019},
  volume={7},
  pages={274 - 288}
}
ABSTRACT Cognitive psychology has undergone a paradigm shift in the ways we understand how knowledge is acquired and represented within the brain, yet the implications for how this impacts students’ learning of material across disciplines has yet to be fully applied. In this article, we present an integrative review of embodied cognition, and demonstrate how it differs from previously held theories of knowledge that still influence the ways in which many subjects are taught in the classroom. In… 
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