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Looking, listening, gestures, contact: non-verbal communication at school
Product: Book
Trim size in cm: 20x17,5cm
Pages: 144
ISBN: 978-88-590-2474-3
Publication date: 01/05/2021
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The body IS the teacher, born from the collaboration between Professor Daniela Lucangeli and the communication expert director Luca Vullo, is a unique manual to learn about the importance of non-verbal communication at school. Examples and suggestions, together with the suggestion tables by Francesco Chiacchio, allow you to learn the language of the body and gestures, posture and presence, listening and empathy. Starting from real situations that a teacher can often encounter, such as keeping pupils’ attention, how to organize interesting and compelling lessons, how to educate about emotional intelligence to manage conflicts and improve the classroom atmosphere, this volume analyzes the problems and proposes solutions and exercises to learn how to best use gestures and expressions, transforming them into real communication tools to get in touch with students.
By reading this book, you will learn to master facial expressions, gestures, tone and timbre of the voice, transforming the non-verbal and paraverbal code into your best communication resource, significantly improving your relationship with students and colleagues and obtaining more easily listening and
recognition.
A more informative and operational part alternates with insights from scientific research:
1. To regain eye contact and the ability to observe
2. Let's re-educate ourselves to listening
3. The voice is our wonderful musical instrument
4. The magical power of the hands
5. Gestural vs. Digital: let's connect without wifi
6. Nourish emotional intelligence to grow together
7. The classroom is your theater: are you ready to enter the scene?
8. Pupils are not aliens who came to earth to destroy you!
Looking, listening, gestures, contact: non-verbal communication at school
From the collaboration between Daniela Lucangeli, a psychologist and expert in learning psychology followed the most by Italian teachers, and director Luca Vullo, performer and communications expert, a unique manual has been born: a guide that explains the importance of non-verbal communication in school in detail, with scientific insights and practical suggestions. Teachers of all levels will be able to learn how to master facial expressions, proxemics, gestures and tone and timbre of the voice, transforming the non-verbal and paraverbal codes into their best communicative resource. In this way they will be able to significantly improve their relationship with pupils and colleagues and obtain listening pupils and recognition more easily.
STRUCTURE AND CONTENTS
The book is divided into 8 chapters, each one dedicated to one of the five senses or to a specific communication aspect:
At the end of each chapter, the “Problems” and “Solutions” sections (indicated by an orange drawing symbolising Luca Vullo) summarise the main communication topics and issues treated in the chapter. Practical exercises to carry out with the whole class follow each of the mentioned sections.
The illustrations immediately synthesise real situations
Subsequently, problems are analysed and solutions and exercises to improve gestures and expressions are proposed.
Leaf through some selected pages from the book that have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation:
THE AUTHORS
Luca Vullo: author and director of movies, theatre and TV shows, as well as theatre performer, Italian gesture and non-verbal communications expert, professional trainer. Daniela Lucangeli: full-time child psychology professor, vice rector of the University of Padova, president of the National Association for Specializzed Teachers (CNIS), member of the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities (IARLD) and president of Mind4children Spin-off at the University of Padova, as well as author of numerous national and international scientific journals.
