"Nonverbal Intelligence and the Teaching of Writing"
Donna Phillips
(philld2@rpi.edu)
One branch of cognitive research suggests that thinking is inevitably
more than words. Speech gestures, mental images, and concrete metaphors
provide evidence of another kind of thought, or of an aspect of thought
ignored by our logocentric tradition. One such theory is that of bodily
intelligence, described in the work of Mark Johnson. This presentation
explores ways that such bodily intelligence might be used in writing pedagogy
to solve particular invention problems and to create an atmosphere that
nurtures creative analogic thought.
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