The Elements of Skill: A Conscious Approach to Learning

This work presents basic principles in teaching and learning skills as fundmental to all education. These principles include breaking down the elements of a skill into manageable parts. The book is divided into three sections: basic learning blocks and ways of overcoming them; the role of bodily awareness and control in skilled performance; and sample cases with the educations principles applied. Dimon shows how typical mechanical repetition and drills fail to give students necessary insight not only into the process of learning but into the self.