Teaching in Higher Ed

Teaching in Higher Ed


The Joy of Embodied Learning

July 24, 2025

Leslie Bayers discusses her chapter in Joy-Centered Pedagogy: The Joy of Embodied Learning on episode 580 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I certainly wasn’t taught body literacy in school, and what I mean by that is how to read the internal signals that the body might be communicating.
-Leslie Bayers

We feel and think better when we move.
-Leslie Bayers

I try to get students moving or engaged with sensory textures as much as possible to spark learning.
-Leslie Bayers

How we feel absolutely shapes if and how we learn. And many of us feel this in our bodies.
-Leslie Bayers

Learning is incredibly hard work. It’s one of the things that does drain the body of energy.
-Leslie Bayers

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