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Teaching as a Dynamic Phenomenon with Interpersonal Interactions
Author(s) -
Watanabe Katsumi
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
mind, brain, and education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.624
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1751-228X
pISSN - 1751-2271
DOI - 10.1111/mbe.12011
Subject(s) - phenomenon , interpersonal communication , mimicry , psychology , interpersonal relationship , realization (probability) , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , computer science , social psychology , epistemology , ecology , mathematics , philosophy , statistics , biology
People tend to assimilate toward each other. Importantly, assimilations occur both explicitly and implicitly at various levels, ranging from low‐level sensory‐motor coordination to high‐level conceptual mimicry. Teaching is often confused with simply one means of enhancing learning. However, as we shall see in the other articles in this issue, teaching is a dynamic phenomenon where interpersonal interactions occur explicitly and implicitly at multiple levels. Bonding through coordinated interpersonal interactions occupies a substantial portion of teaching. In this article, I would like to introduce two interpersonal phenomena that exemplify implicit interactions and discuss their relations to the new realization of teaching.