Finally, providing words of encouragement, affirmation, or validation of student contributions had a positive impact on teaching presence.
These people carry a sense of validation and self-affirmation that is not transient; what happens today, tomorrow, next week, next month, 10 years from now, etc. does not change who they are or what they are worth; a person who has self-love already believes and trusts him or herself completely and does not strive towards the achievement of goals to prove anything.
So we understand in psychology that the processes that unravel all of that including acknowledgement, affirmation of the victim's experiences, validation of the victim's experiences in the presence of an audience that the pain, the witnessing of the pain, the pain being witnessed by others, by listening others, is the beginning of the journey towards healing.
I never dreamed then that, in my lifetime, a president would give me the hope, affirmation and validation that Obama gave to millions of LGBT kids and young adults on Wednesday.
"To see yourself free has a sort of validation- but African photographers especially are still very much conflated to the body- affirmation, documentation, reporting," he remarked.
"But there's a comfort, an affirmation, a validation in being exposed to people with similar problems".
It was this enormous act of validation.
"My years of validation save me".
It provided a key piece of validation.
Lack of validation by others.
