Dr James Mannion

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Rethinking Education · “We feel, therefore we learn!” Why education needs to get embodied - with Guy Claxton and Emily Poel · 12 Aug 2026 podcast

And in all kinds of ways, it plays out in my own life.

But let's start with the big picture.

Looking beyond education, you sort of talk about this mind-body split is something that runs through the history of Western civilization.

Often it's associated with Descartes, with this sort of Cartesian dualism of the body and the soul, the body and the mind being separate things which somehow sort of interact, but that are somehow seen as distinct.

So could you just start?

Let's start with you, Guy, on this one, just to make the case for the mind-body split more broadly.

How does this show up?

Well, I don't know.

I mean, take it in whichever direction you

And this is a massive topic, isn't it?

almost the perfect visual image, isn't it, of this, like the gym that's turned into an exam hall.

There's even a split in our relationship to the physical.

And I'll throw this one over to you, Emily.

So embodied ideas, our language is littered with embodied ideas.

We reach for an idea.

We shrug off a suggestion.

We bounce ideas around.

We juggle tasks and so on.

We use these sort of physical embodiment metaphors all the time.

And I know you write about this in the book.

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