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Improv for democracy : how to bridge differences and develop the communication and leadership skills our world needs /
"While much has been written about what democracies should look like, much less has been said about how to actually train citizens in democratic perspectives and skills. Amid the social and political crises of our time, many programs seeking to bridge differences between citizens now draw from...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | SUNY series in new political science.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Upward Call
- How Can People Develop the Skills Our World Most Needs?
- Applied Improvisation
- Pulling Ourselves, Our Organizations, and Our Societies Upward
- What You Can Do with This Book
- Toward Communication, Leadership, and Civic Excellence
- Chapter 1 A New Curriculum for Training Engaged, Innovative, and Flexible Citizens
- Changing How We Educate
- The Enemy of Democracy: Our Default Settings
- Connecting Applied Improv with Leading Ideas
- Evidence for Applied Improvisation
- Chapter 2 How to Prepare for and Practice Improv for Democracy
- What to Bring to This Curriculum
- The Background Basics
- Say "Yes, and ..."
- Give and Take
- Welcome the Unexpected
- Use Inner and Outer Awareness
- Interrupt Routines
- Let Go
- Care and Commit
- Sequencing a Course or Workshop
- Chapter 3 Using Improv to Develop Communication Excellence
- Applied Improv and Core Communication Competencies
- Monitoring and Presenting Your Self
- Practicing Communication Ethics
- Adapting to Others
- Practicing Effective Listening
- Expressing Messages
- Identifying and Explaining Fundamental Communication Processes
- Creating and Analyzing Message Strategies
- Push Your Focus Outward
- Exercise Expressive Flexibility
- Manage Your Energy Level
- Play Multiple Roles and Viewpoints
- Read the Subtext
- Prepare for the Unpredictable
- React to Create
- Practice Positive Communication
- Find the Affinity
- Chapter 4 Using Improv to Develop Leadership Excellence
- Exercise Adaptive Leadership
- Improvise Up and Down the System
- Shift Your Status
- Facilitate Co-creation
- Perform Resilience
- Act Charismatically
- Reframe the Game
- Fuse Tasks with Relationships
- Chapter 5 Using Improv to Develop Civic Excellence
- Inquire Openly and Earnestly
- Transcend Your Physiology
- Play to Engage
- Affirm the Negative
- Exercise Narrative Flexibility
- Repeat Trust
- Advance the Ensemble
- Improvise in Liminality
- Conclusion Developing for Our Global Futures
- Improvisation, Communication, and Cosmopolitan Citizenship
- Closing the Gap in People Skills
- Performance-Based Teaching and Training
- Transparency in a New Key
- Toward Bold, Sustainable Public Possibilities
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index