Physical Arts
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There are many questions about the physical and health arts and the application of skill-based knowledge for which you can find answers in your cognitive journey. For example, how were the physical and health arts practiced and performed from ancient to contemporary Greece? How did educators, philosophers, militarists, and artists practice these arts? How was thinking and discourse stimulated by physical exercise? What relationship existed between teaching, learning, and performing skills?
Aristotle and his school of peripatetic teaching and learning is an example of how educators and philosophers practiced the physical arts in their activities.
To help you reason through this case, answer these questions and record your responses to recall during the corresponding lesson activities in Greece and for the reports that you will make on what you have learned.
| What advantages and disadvantages does the physical activity in martial arts, performance arts, and other physical activities provide as models for teaching and learning? |
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| Do you think active engagement of the body can contribute to active engagement of the mind? How? Under what circumstances? |
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| Can you think of contemporary practices that work similarly? |
In Athens, visit the vicinity of the Lyceum and consider and discuss these questions with respect to what you can learn about the site, its artifacts, and from interaction with Greek scholars and practitioners.
Gather data from your activity and record notes on your reasoning of this case for later analysis and reporting (and publishing on the QFK Web).
Consider contrasts and paralles between ancient and contemporary Greek practices in the following areas: military practices, medical practices, and the performing arts, such as dance. Explore how Greek culture has changed or retained their sense of balance in using mind and body.
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