Body, Relationship, and Learning: Developing and Pilot-Testing a Mixed-Methods Questionnaire for an Embodied Drama Workshop
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Embodied cognition, apprendimento basato sul dramma, laboratorio drammatico abilitativo, ecologie relazionali, inclusioneAbstract
This contribution explores the perspective of Embodied Cognition as an epistemological, design and operational basis for the Habilitative Drama Workshop (HDW), understood as an Embodied Cognition-based pedagogical practice in which learning emerges from the dynamic interaction between gesture, action and physical environment. In the HDW workshop, the body is taken as an epistemic device: through sensory involvement, relational attunement and symbolic play, participants activate physical, emotional and cognitive resources in the encounter between themselves and others experienced in a shared action that allows for the reorganisation of perceptions and meanings. The logic of “as if” creates a safe and reversible reality that allows participants to explore identities, negotiate roles and experiment with alternative forms of agency. According to the logic of enactive learning and the principles of the extended mind, learning is conceived as a process distributed among bodies, objects and social interactions. The contribution also presents the construction and pilot testing of a questionnaire aimed at detecting university students' perceptions of the bodily, relational and metacognitive outcomes of the workshop, integrating a reading inspired by the ICF model and a mixed-methods analysis.
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