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on emotion ~ Damasio ~ a new way of thinking

Jeannette Winterson

ART + Its Place in Our World

Philoctetes Round Tables + Links

The Development of Temperament During the First Three Years of Life

The Motive for Metaphor (March 1 2008)

Music and Imagination

Secrets of a Soul: A History of Psychoanalysis and Cinema (February 29 2008)

Perception and Imagination, Masters of the Senses

Science and Dreams

the teacher

A teacher’s self-knowledge is a starting point for creating community with one’s teaching self. However, there are issues in education that can prevent one form gaining self-knowledge. These include vulnerability, disconnection, and fear. Having taught for over thirty years, Palmer (1998) described his feeling as he started with each new class that he taught, no matter the arsenal of teaching methods he possessed. Instead, he saw his ability to connect with students as paramount. He wrote:

In every class I teach, my ability to connect with my students, and to connect them with the subject, depends less on the methods I use than on the degree to which I know and trust my selfhood—and am willing to make it available and vulnerable in the service of learning. (p. 10)

Palmer pointed out that good teachers not only have the capacity for connectedness, but that they also actively participate in self-discovery and find interesting and valid ways of joining their inward self with the subject that they are teaching.

Steward

~Stewardship to the Community~
Local Global Future

a thought primer ~

Cognitive Affective and Community ~ a paper
by Trae Stewart, Assistant Professor of Education University of Central Florida
a viewpoint ~ during an intense period of identity construction, adolescents are disconnected from adult, civic life and the opportunity to engage in activities important to society, and to receive rewards associated with such work. Adolescents, in turn, are apathetic to the immediate problems affecting society and are unlikely to become interested and engaged adults. This study seeks to determine the affective impacts of mandatory service-learning on adolescents, and the role that these impacts might have on helping adolescents to create a more civic-oriented identity.

Thinker

~Reflective Thinker~
Conceptual Critical Creative

Michalko Links

Thinking Planner

Encouraging Creative Thinking with Awareness Questions

information is not enough - from SEET rethinking education in Scotland podcasts

Ken Robinson's views on Creativity + Education