Teaching in Higher Ed
Teaching in Higher Ed
Bonni Stachowiak
The Joy of Embodied Learning
43 minutes Posted Jul 24, 2025 at 11:00 am.
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Leslie Bayers discusses her chapter in Joy-Centered Pedagogy: The Joy of Embodied Learning on episode 580 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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We feel and think better when we move.

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