Enactive Approach to Learning

Enactive Approach to Learning Bringing Forth the World

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Enactive Approach to Learning Bringing Forth the World

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Enactive Approach to Learning

Bringing Forth the World

Ralph Ings Bannell | Paul Standish | Giovanni Rolla

Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects

This book considers the enactivist conception of mind and cognition and its implications for education and learning. Enactivism claims that our mind is a combination of the brain, the body in movement and the environment, interacting together in a dynamic system of sense-making. It is one of the 4E cognition approaches (embedded, embodied, extended and enactive) but has had little application to learning to date. The authors develop and defend an enactivist philosophy of cognition, bringing a new perspective on the philosophy of learning, which challenges traditional cognitivist views. They draw insights from different disciplines including Philosophy, language studies , cognitive, developmental and ecological psychology, emotion theory, and evolutionary biology and build on the work of Dewey, Maturana & Varela, Gallagher, Evan Thompson, Mark Johnson, Di Paolo, Hutto & Myin, Charles Taylor, together with other contemporary discussions in the philosophy of mind and cognition. This empirically grounded and philosophically enlightened notion of learning carries important, if not revolutionary, consequences for teaching and education.

Ralph Bannell is Visiting Professor in the Teaching, Philosophy and History of Science Programme, at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. He was previously Associate Professor of Education and Head of Department from 2014-2018 at the Pontíficial Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is a founding member and Past President of the Brazilian Society for the Philosophy of Education.

Giovanni Rolla is Professor of Philosophy at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil, where he works as a Professor in the Philosophy Graduate Programme and the Teaching, Philosophy and History of Science Programme. He is a scholarship holder for research productivity at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).


Publication Date: 13 May 2027
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN-13: 9781350558472
Format: Hardback
Page Count: 320
Weight (oz): 17.76

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