Biodanza is a system criated in Chile in the sixties. His results are impressive, because practising Biodanza turns people more affective and communcative.
This article examines conversations in organizations for homeless assis-tance in Germany in which social workers discuss precarious living situations with their clients. The analyses show that (most of) the conversations about such... more
This article examines conversations in organizations for homeless assis-tance in Germany in which social workers discuss precarious living situations with their clients. The analyses show that (most of) the conversations about such precarious social situations are precarious themselves. Precarious social situations and precarious conversations are comparable: In each case, precarity is understood as a constellation in which two contradictory reference orientations apply simultaneously (socially constructed normality and clients’ actual normality). Precarity in conversations results from the participants communicatively establishing different reference points for normality. Findings are that coping strategies for precarious situations can also be observed as communicative strategies in conversations. However, the same clients show different strategies to deal with either social or communicative precarity. In general, such research helps improve our understanding of precarity and its effects on social (inter)action.
In social life it is most of the time not paid enough attention to the fact that your body matters. We usually only realize that we have a body whenever it hurts or does not fit into social norms. But our body is our basic instrument to... more
In social life it is most of the time not paid enough attention to the fact that your body matters. We usually only realize that we have a body whenever it hurts or does not fit into social norms. But our body is our basic instrument to interact, to express ourselves, and to involve ourselves in relationships. The body plays an important role in the classroom, too. So if you want to create a good learning environment, students and teachers have to feel comfortable in their bodies. This lecture wants to focus on the body as a central component of teaching. The goal is to introduce some methods that primarily concern the body. A didactic approach will be presented, which encourages both social competence and the didactics of language and literature at the same time. The lecture is based on the following concepts: body awareness – body language – body didactics – drama teaching.
