Learning to Listen : Exercises to Become a More Empathic Interviewer

著者名：Norkunas, Martha

Palgrave Macmillan（2026/09/22発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9783032131898
• eISBN：9783032131904

Description

If the heart of oral history is the interview and the heart of the interview is listening, then how can we learn to listen, and how can we teach interviewers to listen with empathy? This book reframes listening from a natural talent to a teachable skill and presents a series of listening exercises the author created to teach students and other interviewers how to become better listeners. The exercises are suitable for people at various levels and can be used by anyone interested in improving their listening skills or teaching those skills in courses or workshops. The book also includes passages from students’ listening journals where they write about what they learned about listening from that exercise. In addition to offering insights into listening the journals serve as examples of how people can write their own listening journals. Other books describe ways to improve listening, but this one offers people a series of specific exercises designed to improve their listening skills.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Creating the Listening Exercises, How to Use Them.- 3. Reflections on Listening.- Part 1: Explorations in Listening Technique.- 4. Structured and Unstructured Interviews.- 5. Body Language.- 6. Mimicking Facial Expressions.- 7. Breathing Together.- 8. Listening to Sounds.- 9. Small Silences (Not Interrupting).- 10. Sharing Silence.- Part 2: Listening through Objects, Places, Nature.- 11. Sites of Memory.- 12. Objects of Meaning.- 13. Objects Around Me.- 14. Books, Movies and Poems.- 15. The Details of Daily Life.- 16. Relationships with Trees (Nature).- 17. Listening to Nature and Animals (Nonhuman Persons).- Part 3: Listening Empathically to Ideas, Values, and Plans.- 18. Joy.- 19. Advice on Being a Good Person.- 20. A Just Society (Values, Ethics).- 21. Children.- 22. Life in Ten Years (Exploring the Future).- 23. Epiphany (How Meanings Change Over Time).- Part 4: Listening Empathically to Emotional Memory.- 24. Empathy and Stories of Emotional Significance.- 25. Empathy and What is it Like to be Your Mother.- 26. Is This What You Meant.- 27. Teenage Years.- 28. Social Class.- 29. Negotiating the Boundaries of Private Stories.- 30. Healing.- 31. Creating New Listening Exercises.- 32. Complexities in Listening.- 33. Deepening Relationships with Family and Friends through the Listening Exercises.