Learning for Every Body: Intersectional Dimensions of Embodied Learning

Abstract

As embodiment research gains popularity within the learning sciences, this symposium both leverages and critiques embodiment perspectives as they reveal the learning of marginalized students. We highlight the manifold ways in which bodies that do not conform, subscribe, or satisfy the imagined, normative ‘ideal’ standard in educational settings—be they racialized, gendered, disabled, indigenous, multilingual, queer, and/or politicized—construct and are constructed within explicitly embodied learning settings.