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Reading List
A growing collection of books, research papers, and foundational texts that inform the study and practice of human movement. The list brings together works from philosophy, science, history, and movement education that have helped shape the ongoing inquiry of RB Movement Education.
Jonathan Barnes
The Presocratic Philosophers
Aristotle
On the Soul (De Anima)
René Descartes
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
Immanuel Kant
Critique of Pure Reason
Martin Heidegger
Being and Time
Martin Heidegger
The Question Concerning Technology
Hubert L. Dreyfus
Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time, Division I
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Phenomenology of Perception
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The Visible and the Invisible
James Filler
Heidegger, Neoplatonism, and the History of Being: Relation as Ontological Ground
James Filler
Substance Ontology and the Crisis of Reason
Sam Todes
Body and World
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
The Primacy of Movement
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
“Being-in-Movement: Phenomenological Ontology of Being”
Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson & Eleanor Rosch
The Embodied Mind
Anthony Chemero
Radical Embodied Cognitive Science
Lydia A. Gerhardt
Moving and Knowing: The Young Child Orients Himself in Space
François Delsarte
Delsarte System of Expression
Liselott Diem
Children Learn Physical Skills, Volumes 1 & 2
Liselott Diem
The Important Early Years
Rudolf Laban & F. C. Lawrence
Effort
Rudolf Laban
The Language of Movement
Rudolf Laban
Modern Educational Dance
Rudolf Laban
The Mastery of Movement
Elizabeth Mauldon & John Redfern
Games Teaching: A Heuristic Approach for the Primary School
Glenn Kirchner
Introduction to Movement Education
Bonnie Cherp Gilliom
Basic Movement Education for Children: Rationale and Teaching Units
Joan Russell
Creative Movement and Dance for Children
Frank H. Netter
Atlas of Human Anatomy
Robert Schleip et al.
Fascia in Sport and Movement
Yuri Verkhoshansky & Mel C. Siff
Supertraining
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