Awareness Training in Learning and Teaching
William Plain
Copyright ©1990
by William Plain
First published 1990
Typesetting: EdiText, Turin
Published by Edizioni il Capitello, Turin
Printed in Italy
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements, viii
Introduction, ix
Choice of the word ‘awareness’
Establishing the parameters
Part 1. The Practice of Awareness
Ch. 1. ‘There is no recipe for the tired learner’, 3
Un coeur de poète
Insight
Ch. 2. Awareness training in the classroom, 9
All teaching is concerned with awareness
Specific awareness training
Ch. 3. The teacher in the awareness equation, 19
Awareness as course planner
Explicit awareness training
Teacher awareness of self
Awareness in freedom
Ch. 4. Inhibitors of awareness, 29
Individual differences
Anxiety
Time
Part 2. The Nature of Awareness
Ch. 5. Paradigms, models and the like, 39
Awareness of ‘paradigmatic limitation’
Recognition of discrepancy
Awareness activities
Ch. 6. A Paradigm for awareness, 49
The awareness training process
The inner structure of awareness
Individuation
Decentering
Ch. 7. From awareness to insight, 59
The inner dimension of wholeness
The Subject of awareness
Beyond awareness
Conclusion, 67
Final note to reader, 69
Part 3. Awareness and the Proficient Practitioner
Interviews, 73
Martin Bygate, 75
Don Porter, 81
Mario Rinvolucri, 89
Jon Roberts, 99
Pauline Robinson, 103
Steven Smith, 111
Gill Sturtridge, 119
Alan Tonkin, 129
Adrian Underhill, 135
Ron White, 141
Eddie Williams, 153
Tessa Woodward, 159
Appendix. Awareness training in the literature, 171
The origins of awareness
The acquisition of awareness
Bibliography, 183
Index, 185
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