This book provides listening researchers, educators, and practitioners with an analysis of listening behavior from current perspectives developed by scholars concerned with the way humans process oral messages. The chapters offer a useful base for applying what the authors know about the complexities of listening to improving listening skills in personal relationships, academic, work, and social settings. Contributors from communication, education, psychology, reading, audiology, and learning skills fields offer their perspectives on how we can understand listening, extending our present...
This book provides listening researchers, educators, and practitioners with an analysis of listening behavior from current perspectives developed b...
Current conceptualizations of children's thinking tend to be unneccesarily narrow, and to focus on what might be called "convergent" thinking. As a result, invention and innovation are often underemphasized in schools. This text aims to encourage a broad understanding of intellect, and attempts to help teachers to recognize and foster more varied forms of intellectual activity in their students. It offers a review of recent theory on creativity, conceptualizing this as a matter of getting ideas, trying the new, branching out and the like, rather than of producing artistic or scientific...
Current conceptualizations of children's thinking tend to be unneccesarily narrow, and to focus on what might be called "convergent" thinking. As a re...
This volume presents the first full integration of Native American Shamanic healing with psychodynamic therapy. Through an expansion of expressive therapy techniques guided by the author's broadening awareness, shamanic training and exposure to the wilderness, the author offers a means for accessing and awakening the numerous energies and forces of the full human being.
This volume presents the first full integration of Native American Shamanic healing with psychodynamic therapy. Through an expansion of expressive ...
The impetus for this book derives from the unusually high percentage of minority students generally, and Native American students specifically, who do not complete a collegiate degree. Of all ethnic groups in the U.S., Indian students experience the most difficulty in obtaining a degree. A host of strategies and policies have been implemented by well-meaning administrators to decrease attrition, yet these ideas have often failed to make any significant difference in whether Indian students graduate. This volume is the result of a two-year study of Native American undergraduate students. It...
The impetus for this book derives from the unusually high percentage of minority students generally, and Native American students specifically, who...
