'Practice without Theory': A Neuroanthropological Perspective on Embodied Learning

Making Knowledge: Explorations of the Indissoluble Relation Between Mind, Body and Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 21-38

  Downey, Greg ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

'Practice without theory' a neuroanthropological perspective on embodied learning; Active engagement, with human biology functional morphology, neurosciences and neuropsychology; Apprentices of Afro Brazilian danced martial art capoeira learning through imitation; Bourdieu, overcoming dichotomy objectivism and subjectivism in social theory; Capoeira apprenticeship, bodily movement style or hexis without changing attitudes; Capoeira, form of embodied knowledge techniques or skills; Imitation without intention pervasive and unproblematic for humans; Mimetic learning and imitation behaviour in activities, through mimesis; Shared mimetic forms of learning in capoeira, mundane corporeal techniques; The art, enculturation and biological development imitative learning

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EID: 84886025384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444391473.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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