Mirror, Lens and Window: A Workbook on Journaling for Namibian Teachers in Training

Mirror, Lens and Window: A Workbook on Journaling for Namibian Teachers in Training arises from a sponsorship with Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
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Title: Mirror, Lens and Window
Subtitle: A Workbook on Journaling for Namibian Teachers in Training
Author: Dorian Haarhoff
Publisher: Basler Afrika Bibliographien
Switzerland, Baslel 2014
Namibia Resource Centre & Southern Africa Library
ISBN 9783905758351 / ISBN 978-3-905758-35-1
Softcover, 17 x 24 cm, 132 pages

Description:

The title Mirror, Lens and Window supplies the guiding metaphor for this workbook on journaling for Namibian teachers in training. A journal is both a mirror and a window at the same time - rather like a pane of glass in a shop window. It reflects both what is inside but also what is in the street (like the Roman god Janus with two faces, placed at the entrance to the house - one face looked into the interior and the other into the street). The lens of a camera suggests different ways of focusing and seeing - magnifying, zooming, wide-angle, portrait, landscape. In a journal we find quotations, thoughts, memories, experiences, plans, creative writing, dreams, expectations and experiments. A journal is central to the writing experience in that it can be used for self-reflective writing (a companion to the self), process writing (rough drafts of assignments), problem solving (personal and professional issues), recording dreams (both in the sense of the inner nightly dramas and future hopes that honour the powers of the imagination to set in motion a desired outcome) and inspirational quotations to keep alive your passion for vocation.

Content: Mirror, Lens and Window: A Workbook on Journaling for Namibian Teachers in Training

Foreword
Keeping a Teacher's Journal
Listening with the Ear in your Chest
Observing the World
Nature as Teacher
Living the Questions Now
Left Brain, Right Brain, and Journaling
Creative Prompts
Narrative Therapy - Refraining Negative Experiences
Once there was ... How to Structure a Story
Endings. Impact, and Riddles
The Reading Teacher
The Empty Chair
How to facilitate a Jounal Workshop
Bibliography
Appendix 1: Student Stories
Appendix 2: More Stories