(DOWNLOAD) "The Truth About Teaching and Touching." by Childhood Education # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: The Truth About Teaching and Touching.
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 175 KB
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Back in the 1970s, teachers were told that "Teaching is to touch a life forever." Now, because of liability concerns, the National Education Association has recommended educators "teach, but don't touch" (Colt, 1997). Many U.S. teachers refrain from hugging, patting, or touching their students because they are afraid they will be charged with child abuse. Is this an accurate perception? Does touching enhance or impede children's growth? It is time to tell the truth about teaching and touching. Touching is the most intense channel of nonverbal communication and the one most people are reluctant to discuss. In Maslow's hierarchy of needs, giving and receiving love and affection is a foundation element. It is like the sun in the midst of the solar system--everything else revolves around it. Touch is one manifestation of the love and consideration that all people need in order to survive. Love and touch are indivisible (Key, 1975; Montagu, 1971; Montagu & Matson, 1979). Throughout people's lives, "touch is no short-lived event, finished when a hand is removed from the person, but rather is perceived as part of one's history, an event of real magnitude, effecting some permanent change" (Henley, 1973, p. 96).