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This book considers the enactivist conception of mind and cognition and its implications for education and learning. Enactivism claims that our mind is a combination of the brain, the body in movement and the environment, interacting together in a dynamic system of sense-making. It is one of the 4E cognition approaches (embedded, embodied, extended and enactive) and has had little application to learning to date. The authors develop and defend an enactivist philosophy of cognition, bringing a new perspective on the philosophy of learning, which challenges traditional cognitivist views. They draw insights from different disciplines including Philosophy, language studies , cognitive, developmental and ecological psychology, emotion theory, and evolutionary biology and build on the work of Dewey, Maturana & Varela, Gallagher, Evan Thompson, Mark Johnson, Di Paolo, Hutto & Myin, Charles Taylor, together with other contemporary discussions in the philosophy of mind and cognition. This empirically grounded and philosophically enlightened notion of learning carries important, if not revolutionary, consequences for teaching and education.

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Table of Contents

Series Editors' Introduction
Introduction
1. Bringing Forth the World
2. The Enactive Approach
3. Laying Down a Path in Walking
4. Enactivism Radicalized
5. Sensing the World
6. Becoming An Agent and A Self
7. Knowledge and Rationality
8. Becoming a Language Animal
9. Lifeworld and Culture
10. An Enactive Approach to Learning
References
Index

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Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 15 Apr 2027
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 256
ISBN 9781350558496
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 10 bw illus
Series Bloomsbury Inquiries in Philosophy and Education
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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