Free to Move While Learning
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Free to Move While Learning - Susan Kramer
Free to Move While Learning
by Susan Kramer
Dedication
To Ted Shawn who inspired me while his student to consider using dance skills creatively to teach basic academics.
Free to Move While Learning
ISBN: 978-1-300-00189-8
Copyright © 2012 Susan Kramer
Santa Barbara, California
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
This text is in of the Rhythmic Movement Dance Series
part of the
Gateway to Educational Material (GEM)
of the United States Department of Education.
Introduction
Body-Mind-Spirit
harmoniously bound
circling in patterns, rhythms, in time, place, space.
Harmony of body and mind
in cooperation within the individual; together in group interaction
patterns a lifetime of harmonious living in society.
This text/workbook draws on my experience as a dance specialist since 1965 in teaching basic academic concepts using a series of sequentially more complex rhythmic body movements combined and expanded into patterns.
Language, reading, math, writing
science, humanities, technology, the arts
contain rhythmic elements or patterns.
Patterns of rhythmic movement using opposition of arms and legs help develop right-left brain linkage.
Example: walking steps with arms swinging at sides; as left foot steps forward, right arm swings forward.
The nerve endings in sense organs feed the brain information for analysis and reflection through hearing; seeing; feeling in muscles, on skin and in motion; tasting; smelling.
Allowing the student to learn with as many senses as possible helps instill new concepts, including basic academics.
This theory of teaching, learning, using the bodily senses - body to mind, powered by spirited, enthusiastic energy - is a basis of somatic education and kinesthetic learning.
Part I
Anatomy as Applied to Teaching Movement
1. Body Placement
Side view of correct posture.
Vertical line illustrates alignment:
Ears over shoulders -
Over hip bones -
Weight divided evenly in the triangle between toes and heels -
Whole foot on floor -
Balance centered just forward of shin bone at ankle.
When standing on one leg the weight should be divided over the supporting foot, extending in a straight column upward. Center of leg upward through center of torso.