What Is the Role of the Body in Science Education? A Conversation Between Traditions
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What Is the Role of the Body in Science Education? A Conversation Between Traditions. / Kersting, Magdalena; Amin, Tamer G.; Euler, Elias; Gregorcic, Bor; Haglund, Jesper; Hardahl, Liv Kondrup; Steier, Rolf.
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T1 - What Is the Role of the Body in Science Education?
T2 - A Conversation Between Traditions
AU - Kersting, Magdalena
AU - Amin, Tamer G.
AU - Euler, Elias
AU - Gregorcic, Bor
AU - Haglund, Jesper
AU - Hardahl, Liv Kondrup
AU - Steier, Rolf
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Bodily engagement with the material and sociocultural world is ubiquitous in doing and learning science. However, science education researchers have often tended to emphasize the disembodied and nonmaterial aspects of science learning, thereby overlooking the cru- cial role of the body in meaning-making processes. While in recent years we have seen a turn towards embracing embodied perspectives, there persist considerable theoretical and methodological differences within research on embodiment in science education that ham- per productive discourse. What is needed is a careful examination of how different traditions and disciplines, among them philosophy, social semiotics, and cognitive science, bear on embodiment in science education research. This paper aims to explore and articulate the differences and convergences of embodied perspectives in science education research in the form of a dialogue between three fictitious personas that stand for the cognitive, social- interactionist, and phenomenological research traditions. By bringing these traditions into dialogue, we aim to better position the role of the body in the science education research landscape. In doing so, we take essential steps towards unifying terminology across differ- ent research traditions and further exploring the implications of embodiment for science education research.
AB - Bodily engagement with the material and sociocultural world is ubiquitous in doing and learning science. However, science education researchers have often tended to emphasize the disembodied and nonmaterial aspects of science learning, thereby overlooking the cru- cial role of the body in meaning-making processes. While in recent years we have seen a turn towards embracing embodied perspectives, there persist considerable theoretical and methodological differences within research on embodiment in science education that ham- per productive discourse. What is needed is a careful examination of how different traditions and disciplines, among them philosophy, social semiotics, and cognitive science, bear on embodiment in science education research. This paper aims to explore and articulate the differences and convergences of embodied perspectives in science education research in the form of a dialogue between three fictitious personas that stand for the cognitive, social- interactionist, and phenomenological research traditions. By bringing these traditions into dialogue, we aim to better position the role of the body in the science education research landscape. In doing so, we take essential steps towards unifying terminology across differ- ent research traditions and further exploring the implications of embodiment for science education research.
U2 - 10.1007/s11191-023-00434-7
DO - 10.1007/s11191-023-00434-7
M3 - Journal article
JO - Science & Education
JF - Science & Education
SN - 0926-7220
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ID: 340285963