" How to Land: Finding Ground in an Unstable World foregrounds the importance of embodiment as a means of surviving the disorientation of our twenty-first century world. Linking somatics and politics, author Ann Cooper Albright argues that a renewed attention to gravity as both a metaphoric sensibility and a physical experience can help transform moments of personal disorientation into an opportunity to reflect on the important relationship between individual resiliency and communal responsibility. Long one of the nation's preeminent thinkers in dance studies, Albright asks how contemporary bodies are affected by repeated images of falling bodies, bombed-out buildings, and displaced peoples, as well as recurring evocations of global economies and governments in discursive free fall or dissolution. What kind of fear gets lodged in connective tissue when there is an underlying anxiety that certain aspects of our world are in danger of falling apart? To answer this question, she draws on analyses of perception from cognitive studies, tracing the discussions of meaning, body and language through the work of Sara Ahmed, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Shaun Gallagher, among others. In addition, she follows the past decade of debate in contemporary media concerning the implications of the weightless and two-dimensional social media exchanges on structures of attention and learning, as well as their effect on the personal growth and socialization of a generation of young adults. Each chapter interweaves discussions of movement actions with their cultural implications, documenting specific bodily experiences and then tracing their ideological ripples out through the world. " 4e de couverture

Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction

- Falling
- Disorientation
- Suspension
- Gravity
- Resilience
- Connection

- Afterword

Contient aussi : des notes, une bibliographie et un index[-]

"In What a Body Can Do, Ben Spatz develops, for the first time, a rigorous theory of embodied technique as knowledge. He argues that understranding technique as a field of both training and research has much to offer current discussions around the role of practice in the university, including the debates over "practice as research."
Drawing on critical perspectives from the sociology of knowledge, phenomenology, dance studies, enactive cognition, and other areas, Spatz argues that technique is a major area of historical and ongoing research in physical culture, performing arts, and everyday life."-P.4 de la couverture.

Comprend une bibliographie.
Comprend un index.[-]

"The volume brings together cognitive scientists, psychologists, neuroscientists, choreographers, and ballet teachers, to discuss important issues regarding dance and cognition. First, scientists introduce ideas that offer different perspectives on human movement. Professionals from the world of dance then go on to report how their creative and pedagogical work relates to cognition and learning. Finally, researchers with personal links to the dance world demonstrate how neurocognitive methods are applied to studying different aspects related to dance"--P.[4] de la couv.

Comprend une bibliographie.
Comprend un index.[-]

"Cet ouvrage sur la motivation scolaire est le résultat d'une recherche-action menée dans le cadre du programme PAREA par une équipe multidisciplinaire, sous la direction de Mme Denise Barbeau. Cette recherche-action, faisant suite à une autre recherche qui a obtenu en 1995 le prix du ministre de l'Éducation dans la catégorie recherche scientifique, visait à créer des interventions à l'usage des élèves et des professeurs, interventions qui fourniraient des pistes de réflexion et des stratégies susceptibles d'améliorer différents aspects de la motivation des élèves. Le lecteur trouvera réunies dans ce volume les interventions qui s'adressent plus particulièrement aux professeurs. Un second ouvrage, intitulé 'Sur les chemins de la connaissance', présente les interventions qui s'adressent directement aux élèves."-- P. [4] de la couv.

Comprend des références bibliographiques.[-]

"Conflict impacts our personal and social lives in far more complex ways than we fully understand or address. Moving through conflict with resilience and creativity requires equially holistic and whole body response and capacity. 'The choreography of resolution' provides an extraordinary indepth and empirically supported overview of the transformational processes the engage dance into and through conflict entails. This is a visionary and unique contribution to our wider field of peacebuilding and healing"--P. [4] de la couv.

Comprend des notes bibliographiques.
Comprend un index.[-]