When educators consciously integrate the arts and education, the benefits are magnified. Kinesthetic learning has wide-ranging applications, such as interpreting a concept through physical means to increase comprehension, exploring literature themes and feelings through creative movement, exploring the universality and particularity of human…

Jerome Bruner identified three major ways of knowing: iconic, enactive, and symbolic. Schooling has been dominantly framed in the symbolic, and intelligence and achievement were measured in this realm. Gregory Bateson, concerned with mind-nature separation, differentiated between the map (a human-made abstraction) and the territory (the natural…

Recounts a memorable learning experience in the lives of a teacher educator and her collaboration-for-special-educators class while watching and participating in a student's "dancing for understanding" performance. The student dancer exemplified individualized instruction precepts by using her natural kinesthetic intelligence to express her…