2016 Annual Conference

This article turns to an embodied way of knowing (martial arts) offering a perspective on how a typology of teaching and learning, Peters and Armstrong (1998), might potentially be blended into one approach. This perspective views the body as an other way of knowing that challenges dominant Western perspectives.

The target audience would be any educators interested in Peters and Armstrong's (1998) typology of teaching and learning. Also anyone who believes that there are other ways of knowing that are often excluded from academic conversations. And anyone who has experienced an other way of knowing.

The importance of this session derives from the need for a greater understanding of other ways of knowing, especially those that challenge the dominant Western perspective. This session will illustrate how an embodied approach to knowing and understanding can speak to a Western typology of teaching and learning. The innovation that this session will deliver is the use and focus on the body through group demonstration and participation. This session will have a lecture component to familiarize the audience with Peters and Armstrong's (1998) typology of teaching and learning, but will rely on somatic practices to illustrate an other way of knowing. The impact is a potential broadening of horizons for the participants to explore other practices that they may not have considered as being traditionally academic. The timeliness comes from the decreasing distances between people in a global context and a need to understand how teaching and learning are viewed across the globe.