The Kolb Learning Cycle is a popular model of experiential learning in which agents move through four phases: experimentation, concretization, observation, and conceptualization. This model is a dynamic learning model that aligns well with embodied approaches to cognition, as it centers on student agency, inquiry, and exploration. However, there is currently no 4E (embodied, enactive, embedded,...
This is not a trivial question for those of us who teach dance as part of a tradition of educators who seek to foster the development of critical thinkers or what might be called consciousness-raising education (Dewey 1923; Freire 1970; hooks 1994). It is a particularly complicated question for dance educators in the United States who must contend with the broad cultural assumption that the...