Embodiment, Learning and Social Change

This theme focuses on how sport and movement, especially elements from dance, play, and martial arts, can support learning, development and identity processes in children, young people, adults, the elderly and in vulnerable target groups.

This track explores what it means to create awareness of embodiment and (inter)culturality in movement practices. It studies opportunities for learning and approaches to teaching in movement, dance, Physical Education and other subject areas in which movement is used as a method to teaching.

The purpose of the theme is to create knowledge about what is important for both the amount of physical activity and the experience and lessons gained from them among children and youth.

In this theme we examine how coaching and embodied leadership is important for authenticity, presence, and appreciative communication, and how this can be trained in professional practice.

We examine how coaching, movement and an increased awareness of the language of the body as a professional development potential can be implemented in future educational contexts.