The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
•Coregulation occurs in the relationship between your awareness and the awareness of person who conceived this lesson. More typically, you would be in a live classroom where that person could continuously alter her responses to what she observed in the students. In some sense, this has already happened because the author of the lesson had learned h
... See moreAlan Fogel • Body Sense: The Science and Practice of Embodied Self-Awareness (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
The capacity of this approach to push things into an uncomfortable range is another feature of its competence in facilitating learning below the neck. It does, however, create tension between two characteristics of an effective learning environment: safety and challenge. Parker Palmer has eloquently argued for the practice of “creating a hospitable
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This is a shift in epistemology, in how we “know.” This shift entails a transformation of the relationship of self and world, a shift of consciousness, a shift in how we see. It includes a shift in how we relate to authority. Across the last several decades, there has been a growing recognition that as human beings continually make meaning (i.e., m
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The idea of moving to instruction later in life is a theme one finds in the great wisdom literatures from East to West. “Just as one uses a burning candle to light others with,” says the elderly archery teacher in Eugen Herrigel’s famous book Zen in the Art of Archery, “so the teacher transfers the spirit of the right art from heart to heart, that
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