2025 Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC)
Writing a New Song for Composition: An Engaged Musical Learning Experience
Presenters
- Nicol Michelle Epple
- Gian Pagnucci
- Lauren Hatch Pokhrel
Session Focus
This session shows how embodied pedagogy can facilitate powerful holistic learning for students.
Playlist
- “Raining in Baltimore” by Counting Crows
- “The Sound of Sunshine” by Michael Franti & Spearhead
- “Duckworth” by Kendrick Lamar
- “Nuvole Bitache (Deep House Remix)” by Alexandre Pachabezian
- “Here Comes the Sun” by The Beatles
References
- Anderson, Rosemarie. (2001). Embodied writing and reflections on embodiment. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology. 33. 83-98.
- Comstock, Edward J. (2018). Connections between neuroscience, rhetoric, and writing: A plastic pedagogy for the digital age. New York, NY: Routledge Research in Educational Psychology.
- Murray, Joddy. (2015). Non-discursive rhetoric: Image and affect in multimodal composition. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
- Nguyen, David & Larson, Jay. (2015). Don’t Forget About the Body: Exploring the Curricular Possibilities of Embodied Pedagogy. Innovative Higher Education. 40.
- van der Kolk, Bessel A. (2014). The body keeps the score: Brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma. New York, NY: Viking.
- Watkins, D. (2017, Apr. 18). “Damn, Kendrick Lamar: Anatomy of a ‘Duckworth’ epiphany. Salon.