Martin H. Levinson, Ph.D., has recently created A Continuing Education Guide to Teaching General Semantics, a new booklet available for free download through the IGS Store.
About the Booklet
Debuting at the 59th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture in October 2011 as a gift to registrants, the 47-page booklet A Continuing Education Guide to Teaching General Semantics offers guidance for teachers interested in creating a course for students of general semantics.
Originally available in hard copy, A Continuing Education Guide to Teaching General Semantics is now available as a PDF.
Click here to download A Continuing Education Guide to Teaching General Semantics in the IGS Store.
Table of Contents
Lesson I: Science-Related Ideas for Effective Communication and Problem-Solving
Lesson II: Mental Maps—The Way to Better Planning and Prediction
Lesson III: Extensional and Intensional Orientations—How Real is Real?
Lesson IV: Non-Allness—No One Can Know All there is to Know About Anything
Lesson V: "Indexing"—Getting Closer to What is Really Going On
Lesson VI: "Dating"—We Live in a Changing World
Lesson VII: Two-Valued Orientations—The Limitations of Our "Either-Or" Language
Lesson VIII: Distinguishing Facts from Inferences—Language and Reality
Lesson IX: Nonverbal Communication—The Semantics of Silence
Lesson X: Signal-Symbol Reactions—Keeping Your Cool
Lesson XI: Increasing Semantics Awareness—The Structural Differential
Lesson XII: Asking Constructive Questions—Ones that Show an Extensional Orientation
About the Author
Martin H. Levinson, Ph.D., is the President of the Institute of General Semantics and the author of numerous articles and several books on general semantics and other subjects. His latest book is Brooklyn Boomer: Growing Up in the Fifties (2011).
Download the Booklet
Click here to download A Continuing Education Guide to Teaching General Semantics in the IGS Store.
The booklet is also redundantly available in the General Semantics Learning Center under Teaching Materials.
Click here to visit the Teaching Materials section of the General Semantics Learning Center.
