Transforming Learning Through Tangible Instruction offers a
transformative, student-centered approach to higher education pedagogy
that integrates embodied cognition into classroom practice. Evidence
across disciplines makes clear that people learn with their bodies as
well as their brains, but no previous book has provided evidence-based
guidance for adopting and refining its practice in colleges and
universities. Collecting findings from cognitive science, educational
neuroscience, learning theories, and beyond, this volume's unique
approach-radical yet practical, effective yet low-cost-will have
profound implications for higher education faculty and administrators
engaged in teaching and learning. Seven concise chapters explore how
physical objects, hands-on making, active construction, and other
elements of body and environment can enhance comprehension, memory, and
individual and collaborative learning.