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Strean, William B. – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2010
This paper explores a variety of practices and classroom activities that engage the whole student. Grounded in a somatic perspective (from "soma" meaning the body in its wholeness--the integration of thinking, feeling, and acting), the discussion shows how students can be brought fully into learning through movement, music, and…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Active Learning, Learner Engagement, Motion
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Bailey, Rita L.; Angell, Maureen E. – Physical Disabilities: Education and Related Services, 2004
This article identifies critical components of effective school-based feeding improvement programs for students with feeding problems. A distinction is made between typical school-based feeding management and feeding improvement programs, where feeding, independent functioning, and mealtime behaviors are the focus of therapeutic strategies.…
Descriptors: Improvement Programs, School Activities, Eating Disorders, Program Effectiveness
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MacNevin, Audrey L. – Teaching Sociology, 2004
This paper reports on a teaching and learning technique that uses the power of everyday body language and proxemics to illustrate forms of social inequality. More significantly, the active learning exercises assist students to feel the fact that the making and maintaining of power relations is an intimate and visceral matter. In keeping with…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Active Learning, Sociology, Teaching Methods