In a recent post on the PHYSLRNR list, Doug Holton provided this link to a presentation he gave last year to the American Education Research Association's (AERA) Constructivism Special Interest Group. Here's a link to the accompanying paper.
Based on the presentation, I checked out Embodiment and Cognitive Science by Gibbs and have been slowly going over it. The Amazon reviews seem spot on - it's very dense and not for casual reading. But it makes a strong case for the importance of embodied cognition as part of the overall framework of cognitive science.
My (admittedly surface) exposure leads me to think that there's enough overlap but enough difference between Embodied Learning Activities and Embodied Cognition for this to be a productive framework for both analyzing Energy Theater and also for thinking about possible modifications to it.
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