Chormmunity: collaborative embodied text-making as liberatory pedagogy¶

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Description¶

Chormmunity is a group pedagogy in which participants co-create a movement text or ritual as an embodied 'document' of meaning. The article defines it as "the collaborative, embodied text-making (or "dance," or "ritual") by a group", exploring interfacings of intention, metaphor, empowerment, the presentational and the propositional. It is offered as liberatory pedagogy that invites meaning schemes and perspectives to be wrought via community, creativity, and the body.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• A group working collaboratively through verbal conversation that then moves into imagistic and somatic modalities, culminating in a ritually enacted movement text

Constraints¶

• The article presents it as an opinion-paper account of workshop practice, not a tested intervention

Target Learners¶

• adults in transformative learning workshops

Target Learning Objectives¶

• transforming meaning schemes and meaning perspectives
• integrating somatic and presentational knowing with rational knowing

Claims¶

Related Theories¶

Examples¶

• Workshop arc: oral conversation, then imagistic, then somatic, ending in ritual performance
• Make collaboration paramount in pedagogy because humanity is intrinsically collective
• Intentionally activate symbols so they assist transformative learning

Key Sources¶

• Loper, Paul. (2000). Chormmunity: Co-Creating Embodied Community. ERIC Document ED443009. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED443009