The Elements of Skill: A Conscious Approach to Learning

Description

This work presents basic principles in teaching and learning skills as fundmental to all education. These principles include breaking down the elements of a skill into manageable parts. The book is divided into three sections: basic learning blocks and ways of overcoming them; the role of bodily awareness and control in skilled performance; and sample cases with the educations principles applied. Dimon shows how typical mechanical repetition and drills fail to give students necessary insight not only into the process of learning but into the self.

Theodore Dimon, Ed.D. is Director of the Dimon Institute in New York City. Dr. Dimon became certified to teach the Alexander Technique in 1983 at the Constructive Teaching Centre in London, England, and received both his masters and doctorate degrees in Education from Harvard University. He is the author of The Undivided Self and Anatomy of the Moving Body. For further information on the Dimon Institute, please contact-The Dimon Institute737 Park Avenue #9ANew York, New York 10021

"In this enlightening book, the author provides a comprehensive analysis of skilled performance and its acquisition, from a holistic and functional point of view. Since the book is, in addition, full of practical advice on the teaching and learning of skills, it will, I believe, benefit every educator and self-educator who reads it with the care and attention it deserves."-Israel Scheffler, Director, Philosophy of Education Research Center, Harvard University