ABSTRACT
This book shows how one subconsciousness – the teacher's – can learn to call to another – the pupil's: how to expand one's own depths until they can encompass the other's. And yes: in so doing a bond is forged between the two – a bond seldom weaker than one of mutual regard, and sometimes indeed reaching lasting affection. The book explains how the process of teaching and learning unfolds on a much shorter timescale. It encourages the teacher to cultivate the skills necessary to pay high-quality focused attention to what is going on in the present moment between teacher and learner – not just encounter by educational encounter, but topic-by-topic of conversation, line-by-line of dialogue: even, at times, word-by-word and glance-by-glance. The author's contention is that the fine detail of verbal and non-verbal cues marks out the immediate learning agenda which the learner is at that moment primed to address.
