Module: Embodiment, Education & the Arts

Latest Module Specifications

Current Academic Year 2025 - 2026

Module Title	Embodiment, Education & the Arts
Module Code	EDP1008 (ITS: AP303)
Faculty	Arts Education & Movement	School	DCU Institute of Education
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5

Description

This module will focus on the relationship between embodiment, drama education and the arts. The strategies and methodologies used will focus initially on developing an embodied and holistic awareness in the person of the student teacher, which will have implications not only for approaches to curriculum, but also for his/her quality of presence, relationship and communication in the classroom. Drawing on the field of somatic movement education, the sessions will initially focus on explorations in movement and the senses. As the weeks progress, participants will observe the impact of these explorations in pedagogical or performative applications.

Learning Outcomes

1. • Engage with his/her experience of the body-mind continuum through the principles and practices of somatic education.
2. • Identify somatic principles of particular relevance to creativity and arts education.
3. • Interrogate the relationship between his/her personal and professional experience in the context of principles of somatic education
4. • Reference his/her experience in the context of recommended literature in the field.
5. Explore the role of the outdoors in the somatic education process.

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full time hours per semester
Seminars	22	No Description
Assignment Completion	103	No Description
Total Workload: 125

Section Breakdown
CRN	20257	Part of Term	Semester 2
Coursework	0%	Examination Weight	0%
Grade Scale	40PASS	Pass Both Elements	Y
Resit Category	RC1	Best Mark	N
Module Co-ordinator	Paula Murphy	Module Teacher	Paula Murphy

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Assessment Breakdown
Assignment	n/a	100%	n/a

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories; RC1: A resit is available for both^* components of the module. RC2: No resit is available for a 100% coursework module. RC3: No resit is available for the coursework component where there is a coursework and summative examination element. ^* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a coursework/summative examination split; where the module is 100% coursework, there will also be a resit of the assessment

Pre-requisite	None
Co-requisite	None
Compatibles	None
Incompatibles	None

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Indicative Reading List

Books:

Augusto Boal: 1992, Games for Actors and Non-actors, Routledge, London, 247, 9780415061551
Patrice Baldwin: 2012, With Drama in Mind, A&C Black, 157, 9781441169358
Mike Fleming,John O'Toole,Liora Bresler: 2017, The Routledge International Handbook of the Arts and Education, 'Signs, Meanding and Embodiment', Routledge, 223, 9781138577275
Paula Murphy,Margaret O'Keeffe: 2006, Discovering Drama, 4, Gill Education, Dublin, 78, 9780717139347
Margaret Robertson,Rod Gerber: 2001, Children's Ways of Knowing, Children and drama; knowing differently, Acer Press, 218, 0864313497

Articles:

Hermand, C.: 2015, Of Movements and Affects: Dance Improvisation as a Participatory Sense-Making Activity., Embodiment in Arts Education, 1, https://www.academia.edu/38149021/Of_Movements_and_Affects_Dance_Improvisation_as_a_Participatory_Sense_Making_Activity?auto=citations&from=cover_page, 50394
2012: Holistic education: An approach for 21 century., International Education Studies, vol.5, 178, http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ies.v5n3p178, 50395, 1
Letters to a new teacher: A curriculum of embodied aesthetic awareness: Teacher Education Quarterly, vol. 35, 29, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23479222,

Other Resources

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