Perhaps you, like me, dislike the phrase 'social skills', which suggests people good at cocktail party talk or adept at selling you things you don't need. Still, there are social skills of a more serious sort. These run the gamut of listening, behaving tactfully, finding points of agreement and managing disagreement, or avoiding frustration in a difficult discussion. All these activities have a technical name: they are called 'dialogic skills'. . . . Modern society is 'de-skilling' people in practicing cooperation.--Richard Sennett, Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation
Susan Henking
6/19/2012 01:05:02 pm
And to relate this to the educational issue: what forms of education support this kind of social skills rather than only the kind Sennett criticizes? 6/26/2012 09:17:44 pm
in my book (Powers of the MInd) you'll find some notes on the teaching of dialogical skills on pages to indexed topics like 'conversation' and 'dialogue.' Aikido also offers an excellent practice for cultivating such skills. 1/23/2017 03:10:50 am
I must say that gplaycodes is amazing platform from where we can get free google play codes. Leave a Reply. | The Dialog BlogWelcome to Dialog Blog, where we shall pursue inquiry through the practice of creating and resolving problems. CategoriesAll ArchivesNovember 2014 Dialogue Quotables:Violence is the shadow energy of impotence.
— Deepak Chopra Do I not destroy my enemy when I make him my friend?
— Abraham Lincoln (also dialogue) noun - a discussion between two or more people or groups, esp. one directed toward exploration of a particular subject or resolution of a problem.
The primary word I-Thou can be spoken only with the whole being. Concentration and fusion into the whole being can never take place through my agency, not can it ever take place without me. I become through my relation to the Thou; and as I become the I, I say Thou. All real living is meeting.
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