Corporeality, motion and UDL

for special education teachers training

Abstract

Taking the current socio-cultural representations of the body as a starting point, the article intends to explore the dimension of body experience as the root of self-expression in a perspective cura sui. The phenomenological outline of a pedagogy of being a body that plays a decisive role in the formation of the self is outlined. From such an interpretation of corporeality, it is possible to build an "inclusive culture of plurality" that understands the experience of limitation as a hermeneutic exercise of possibility and that activates the processes of agency and empowerment of the subject. In this view, dance, and in particular Dance-movement according to Maria Fux's method, becomes a strategic pedagogical device for building pathways of training in being a body with a purely inclusive connotation that unfolds toward the conceptual paradigm of Universal Design for Learning. This device can also be used in the training of specialized teachers as a tool that phenomenologically and creatively enhances limits and the plurality of interpersonal and intrapersonal manifestations.