UC Irvine Journal for Learning through the Arts Title Can We Use Creativity to Improve Generic Skills in our Higher Education Students? A Proposal Based on Non-Verbal Communication and Creative Movement

Rosa Rodriquez, Guillermo Castilla
2013 unpublished
Traditionally general skills and personal growth have been developed through cognitive processes inside an academic context. A development based on experience, may be an alternative route to achieve cognitive knowledge. Enact-learning is based on the biunivocal relationship between knowledge and action. Action is movement. Participants interact with their environment through movement. When participants are aware of this interaction, knowledge is created. First interactions in the personal
more » ... pment with the environment are nonverbal. Returning to this concept, we propose a work based on creative movement and non-verbal communication. This approach takes into account the multiple intelligences paradigm in order to generate knowledge. This paper seeks to explain a movement development program which has been applied to freshman students from different university degrees. The program design is widely explained. It also will present how it has helped to develop its participant's body conscience. The students' reflections are analyzed through a qualitative methodology. A questionnaire on the students' perception on the connections between general skills and the program allows to complete the results.
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