Thinking trough movement: a proposal for feminist pedagogy

In the following essay I tried to elaborate on the idea of a body as a thinker by explaining the philosophical underpinnings of the movement practice as a way of knowing/making/becoming. By accepting the feminist critique of the epistemological foundations of mainstream education that erase body from the process of knowing, my attempt was to make a movement laboratory to primary school teachers in Portugal, during the meeting of the APECV (Associação de Professores de Expressão e Comunicação Visual). The laboratory focused on the exploration of how movement can be felt before it actualizes (Manning, 2014), how autistic perception that is an inherent characteristic of artful process can be facilitated, and how an expression can emerge in between conciseness and unconsciousness not as an act of free will, but as a continuation of a process of “thinking-with” body (Manning, 2014). In doing so I offered a rational of the background idea of the movement laboratory buy explaining the framework, which is to a great extent influenced by thinking of Erin Manning, but also referring to a poetry as a way of thinking, knowing and relating, and finally offering to a reader direct access to images created by the participants during the lab. I believe that multiplicity can reveal the variety of experience, looking at it through kaleidoscope