David B. Glover, PhD

Scholar–Practitioner of Martial Arts, Movement, Ecological Systems, and Transformation

I work with universities, researchers, and doctoral students to investigate how embodied and movement-based practices function as technologies of the self—structured disciplines through which perception, action, and meaning are intentionally cultivated for personal transformation. My work bridges scholarly theory and practitioner-based inquiry, drawing on ecological approaches to learning to understand adaptation, perceptual refinement, and adaptive expertise in complex, real-world environments.

Rather than separating theory and practice, I treat practice as inquiry and theory as a means of clarifying, testing, and refining what practice makes possible.