Clear communication is at the essence of teaching, yet there are subtle aspects of cross-cultural communication that work with or against educators. Three aspects of communication impact teaching in different cultures-verbal, body language, and meta-communication i.e. all that is contained and implied within a holistic communicative setting. Indigenous people are far more sensitive and intuitive on the subtle meta-communicative level than those of Western culture. Often educators do not transmit or perceive on that level in the same way or to the same degree as village people. Educators quite...

The problems of the existing educational paradigm have been huge, yet the solution is simple. This book clearly describes what is wrong, how to fix it, how we got here, and how to avoid going there ever again. Forty years of extensive and diverse experience in education have been focused and distilled to equip you to pull back the curtain, talk the language, understand the concepts, and propose your own solutions that will rapidly transform the current compliance-driven model into an engaging, beckoning pathway leading all students towards fulfilling adulthood. The current system assumes that...