Choosing
the Right Words and the Right Thoughts: The
Presuppositions of NLP by Jamie Duncan and Laura Szmuch
How
exactly can Neuro-Linguistic Programming help to bring
flexibility to communication between teacher and
student?
This
article introduces the reader to three of the
presuppositions of NLP (with a fourth one thrown in at
the end as a bonus) that are the strands of philosophy
forming the foundation of NLP. These
presuppositions are functional and suggest alternative
ways of sending our messages in a way that will avoid
misunderstandings between sender and receiver.
Four
enjoyable task activities accompany the article.
The
Depersonalisation of Education by Mark Edwards
"The
hard-nosed linear thinkers have taken charge and the
softies are being pushed out, or are choosing to leave.
There are, of course, still plenty of managers in post
who put people first and policies second but my fear is
that the trend is against them."
Mark
Edwards deplores the current obsession with job
specification and essential/desirable traits in
education. The job recruitment process, he considers, is
now so regimented that little account seems to be taken
of the person sitting in the interview chair.
Its as if he or she is a bundle of skills and
competencies which are to be measured against the ones
on the list and ticked off accordingly. Whoever gets the
most ticks wins.
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