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Silence
No full textThis chapter explores how silence in both interpersonal and public contexts discloses dramatically expressive and psychologically powerful meanings. Even when ‘golden silence’ is sought as a retreat, or is imposed as a discipline upon children, women or other groups, the context of gestural and symbolic meanings exposes moral commitments, political strategies and institutional subordination. Silence involves resistance, tension and opposition. The value placed upon silence, or indeed its necessity for disciplined cooperation, raises important questions about human communication. Scholars of communication generally take for granted that vigorous communication is a ʼnorm’ and a ‘good.' As a form of punctuation, silence gives order and structure to communication, rendering meanings in spatial, sequential and even ‘logical’ ways. Silence always threatens to close in and envelop speech within the interior of the individual mind. Whether afforded or denied, the ‘right to silence’ discloses how constitutional regimes acknowledge spheres of individual privacy and spiritual convictions and protect from coerced self-incrimination
Therapeutic self-disclosure: The talking cure
No full textSelf-disclosure-as a form of human expression and an ethically esteemed behaviour-unites the modern, secularised experience of psychoanalysis with ancient values and traditions in Western culture. The act of confiding personal feelings, intimate experiences and closely guarded memories to another person has long been considered an effective therapy for troubled and sorrowing minds. Wise counsel encouragcs us to find words for experiences we have shamefully hidden from others or even tried to suppress in our own minds. The benefits of self-disclosure come from speaking of these hidden aspects of our lives in the presence of a sympathetic person. S. Freud’s theories of the complex web of psychic barriers erected to prevent or distort disclosure of the origins of traumatic repression survive as background hypotheses of an entire gamut of psychoanalytical theory, clinical practice and popular psychology. The ‘classical’ framework of Freudian theory and practice has been hotly contested from its earliest publicity in the late nineteenth century
Introduction: Revealing Disclosure
No full textDisclosure, as an act of revelation, presupposes that something is unknown or covered up. Apart from private and personal matters, there are several formal kinds of disclosure. Statutes require politicians or other officials to disclose financial assets; parties at law must disclose evidence to each other; ‘unnamed sources’ disclose confidential or scandalous information about the actions or intent of others. The dynamic effect of revelatory communication gives disclosure, and certainly non-disclosure, a kind of tension or pressure. The confiding of knowledge carries with it the potential for exposure, shifting perspectives, new confidences. Disclosure and closure, avowal and disavowal, revelation and repression, efforts to uncover and cover up are always in tension with each other, inciting, resisting and limiting one another. Disclosures come in many forms: a declaration, a confession, a discovery, a revelation, an uncovering, an opening up. This chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book
Gender_Gap_in_Charter_Enrollment_EdPolicy_appendix_(05_28_15) – Supplemental material for The Gender Gap in Charter School Enrollment
No full textSupplemental material, Gender_Gap_in_Charter_Enrollment_EdPolicy_appendix_(05_28_15) for The Gender Gap in Charter School Enrollment by Sean P. Corcoran and Jennifer Jennings in Educational Policy</p
How engaged are pre-service teachers in the United States?
No full textUsing the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), findings are reported from the largest ever longitudinal study of engagement among pre-service teachers. Levels of engagement are investigated in 2013 (N = 1609) and 2016 (N = 1413) across 256 U.S. institutions. Using multilevel models, findings indicated that female, white pre-service teachers were less engaged than their male, minority counterparts with small to moderate effect sizes that differed by year. Institutional type, sector, and size were also significantly associated with pre-service teacher engagement. ACT prior achievement scores, however, were not associated with pre-service teacher engagement in either year. Implications for teacher preparation are discussed
Along the Waterfront piece about boatbuilder David Corcoran, who has built a n
No full textAlong the Waterfront piece about boatbuilder David Corcoran, who has built a new boatbuilding shop in Arundel within two miles of the Landing School where he was formerly a student and a teacher. Corcoran has built four E-class sloops so far, and plans to build one, perhaps two, more this winter, along with other wooden-boat projects in the offing
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