IJEDT International Journal of Education and Teaching 2788-5011 SvedbergOpen ijedt-1-4-004 10.51483/IJEDT.1.4.2021.30-36 Research Paper Somaesthetics for Children: The Double-Barreled Body and Contemplative Practice BaeJiyun 1 * 1Project Assistant Professor, Hiroshima University, 1-3-2 Kagamiyama, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8511, Japan. E-mail: jiyunbae.june@gmail.com *Corresponding author: Jiyun Bae, Project Assistant Professor, Hiroshima University, 1-3-2 Kagamiyama, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8511, Japan. E-mail: jiyunbae.june@gmail.com 12 2021 1 4 30 36 Abstract

This paper is to suggest somaesthetics for children as a way of Philosophy for Children (P4C). Somaesthetics, a pragmatism project, focuses on the body and its experience as a springboard for understanding and improving ourselves and the world. Somaesthetics for children is examined on two dimensions. Firstly, it can provide abundant philosophical resources such as a doubleness of the body. Somaesthetics goes beyond the choice of mindbody dualism or monism understanding, highlights ambiguity of the body. The body has an innate contradiction that cannot coexist at first glance. Doubleness should be one of the philosophical themes to understand the self and the world. Secondly, as practical somaesthetics for children, contemplative practices were suggested. They have philosophical meaning from the viewpoint of somaesthetics considering (1) it inform us of our feelings and help us to control them, (2)it gives us better control of our actions, and (3)it helps to retrain our habits.

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