Exploring the interplay between religion and psychology, this book features contributions from leading scholars, offering a comprehensive examination of their current relationship. It serves as a vital resource for students and researchers in the psychology of religion, addressing key issues that highlight the complexities and nuances of how these two fields intersect.
Teaching and learning in a college setting has never been more challenging. How can instructors reach out to their students and fully engage them in the conversation? Applicable to multiple disciplines, the Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm offers a radically new model for helping students respond to the challenges of college and provides a framework for understanding why students find academic life so arduous. Teachers can help their pupils overcome obstacles by identifying bottlenecks to learning and systematically exploring the steps needed to overcome these obstacles. Often, experts find it difficult to define the mental operations necessary to master their discipline because they have become so automatic that they are invisible. However, once these mental operations have been made explicit, the teacher can model them for students, create opportunities for practice and feedback, manage additional emotional obstacles, assess results, and share what has been learned with others.
Writing has long been my chosen therapy. It is a life depicted in these pages and thus far characterised and shaped in part by a debilitating speech impediment, a troubled relationship with my father, the loss of my mother early in my adult life, being an overly moribund obsessive, and bestowed with the blessing of being a father of a Special Needs child.