The Extended Body in the Teaching-Learning Process

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Author(s): Stefano Di Tore (University of Salerno, Italy), Paola Aiello (University of Salerno, Italy), Pio Alfredo Di Tore (University of Salerno, Italy)and Maurizio Sibilio (University of Salerno, Italy)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 8
Source title: Educational Technology Use and Design for Improved Learning Opportunities
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Information Resources Management Association, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6102-8.ch014

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference

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This chapter focuses on the relationship between technology and education, starting from the consideration that the software design explicitly dedicated to the teaching-learning process is, for the most part, still anchored to a discreet information processing model. This model underestimates the role of the body and corporeality in the teaching and learning process and fails to capitalize on the potential offered by enactive interaction devices already present and widely used in schools and learning-dedicated centers. The opportunities offered by the NUIs in school contexts represent the natural consequence of an embodied and enactive approach to knowledge, valued in school contexts in which the skills of perception and the action are enhanced to foster learning.

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