Learning is Moving in New Ways - A Conversation with Professor Dor Abrahamson

Dor Abrahamson is Professor of Secondary Mathematics Education in
the area of Cognition and Development at University of
California, Berkeley and a member of faculty at UC
Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education. Dor has been
pioneering a design-based approach to research called embodied
design. In his Embodied Design Research Laboratory
(https://edrl.berkeley.edu ) Dor and his team look at cognition
and learning of mathematics through the body. As one of his
fascinating articles from 2016 is entitled, Learning is Moving in
New Ways. 


A recent book summarising research in this exciting area of
embodied cognition to which Dor has contributed is linked here:
Macrine, S. L., & Fugate, J. M. (Eds.). (2022) Movement
Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning:
https://edrl.berkeley.edu/lab-blog-posts/macrine-s-l-fugate-j-m-eds-2022-movement-matters-how-embodied-cognition-informs-teaching-and-learning/ 





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