Creative Language and Mindful Expressiveness

ISBN-13: 9783639045970 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 280 str.

Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi

Opis

This book offers an exquisite analysis on language creativity and its educational implications. By virtue of a profoundly salient discussion on the psychological, educational, linguistic and philosophical components of language and discourse, the book provides the reader with a impressive understanding of the relationship between language and thinking and discusses helpful insights and examples that demonstrate how a change in language can develop implications for education. Dr. Fatemi presents a new perspective on language, thinking and education with vivid and conspicuous examples of creative language. He illustrates the resourcefulness and the mastery of language through meticulous arguments and poetic examples. The book proposes innovative and novel ways of looking at language, learning and thinking and features a variety of examples on pedagogical implications of language deconstruction. Dr. Fatemis language is inviting, evocative and brilliantly creative. His critical conceptual analysis of language and its educational implications would offer very comprehensive insights for scholars and students of language and education. The books multidisciplinary approach is superbly lively and thought provoking. His discussion of the relationship between mindfulness, knowledge by presence and language are so immensely fascinating.

O autorze

Fatemi, Ph.D. SayyedMohsen Dr. Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi, Ph.D. holds doctorates in language and literacy education and in psychology and is a frequently published author and poet with numerous conference presentations. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses at the University of British Columbia. He has been the keynote speaker of a number of International Conferences.