NATURE AS A COGNITIVE EXTENSION: EMBODIED PERSPECTIVES FOR EDUCATION

Silvia Artusi, Rossana Pia Laccone, Alessandro Frolli

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The paper examines embodied cognition as an educational paradigm integrating body, mind, and environment. Nature is interpreted as a cognitive device that provides affordances, regulates attention and emotions, and generates situated learning. Pedagogical, methodological, and inclusive implications are discussed, focusing on the teacher’s role and on transforming nature into a neuro-didactic laboratory.




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embodied cognition; outdoor education; nature; inclusion; neuro-didactics

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.32043/gsd.v9i3.1589

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