Embodied Educating

In the spirit of putting embodiment science into practice, in this chapter we offer a wide variety of practical suggestions about what a more embodied approach to teaching, assessing and school leadership might be like in classrooms and in schools as a whole. Some of our suggestions will look familiar; as we have said, embodiment science underpins many existing ‘progressive’ initiatives in schools, so it would be unhelpful to exclude those simply on the grounds of familiarity. Other suggestions may be more unusual and/or more tentative. Some of the directions in which embodiment science leads break new ground for schools, and for us as well, so do treat our suggestions as things to try out or to stimulate your own planning and teaching. They are meant as stepping stones to ease and guide the journey from a more disembodied to a more embodied educational culture.