The School of Thinking and Feeling
The Class of Love
2010-11
How is love expressed in different languages, including sign language or brail, if we can’t hear or see, do we feel love the same way? How does communication affect our expression? Research language, communications, and formulate a theory. Use research done on love, relating to themes of anthropology, history, sociology, psychology, biological, economic, and media sources to validate findings.
Love and Language
10-11-30
Love and Language
Head of Class
Johanna Gunther
Resident of Love
Interns of Love
Simon
Feyzan
Linda
Egor
Theodora
Leonie
Judith
Matthias
Andrea
Erika
Michael
Corinna
Lisa-Christin
Madlen
Astrid
Severin
Ann-Kathrin
Jasmin
Janick
Sven
Pia
Jelena
Philipp
Lea
Torsten
Sonja
Sharing Love...
Outline - Love and Communication - Simon
My presentation will be about the importance of communication in different kinds of relations. The exchange or transmission of ideas, attitudes, or beliefs between individuals who “love” each other will be displayed. My focus will be on face to face communication, and as part of that verbal and nonverbal communication.
Emotional intelligence for example describes an ability to identify, access, and control the emotions of one´s self, and of others. I will use some of Daniel Goleman’s ideas to point out how children learn to communicate emotions and how important it is that parents teach their children to express emotions.
E. Berscheid and E. Walster proposed two mayor types of love: passionate and companionate. I will display the beginning of a relationship and how romantic love continues to find out about the importance of the ability expressing ones feelings in a relationship.
During my presentation I will show a few TV commercials on the topic: How much love is in a Cellphone?
A scene out of the movie “Jenseits der Stille/Beyond silence” will show how two deaf parents raise their daughter who is able to hear. How important is it to express love verbally? Where are the difficulties in a relationship between someone who is disabled and someone how is not?
Experiment - blind and deaf: Together we will find out how love would feel without one of our senses. I will bring earplugs so the class can experience parts of my presentation without sound. Another part of the experiment will be to just listen to “I love you over and over”. Does it feel the same to just hear the words without being able to see the expressions on the faces?
