Evolving My Body In Dialogues

Abstract

Embodied meta-cognition, which is a cognitive effort to externalize what one's body feels by words and thereby to augment what one can feel and encourage attention to various variables, is said to serve as a means for learning emboided skills. We have made a hypothesis that a learning environment with dialogues with other people, each of whom has a daily custom of metacognition in order to learn embodied skill in each filed, may activate their metacognition and make their learning evolve. The four authors except the last have talked with one another regularly about what they had percieved and thought in their exploration of skills. In this paper, we present stories on how each assimilates variables from others, show the frequencies of exchanges of variables among the four, and discuss the implications of the results.