INT 509 - Creativity and Research

(Cr: 2)

The first part of the course is a series of experiences and readings to help each student hone their own observation techniques. This course enables the learner to pursue and document the practical application (practicum) of their experience through interpretive research. The practicum is a project that demonstrates in action the theoretical understanding of integrative learning. A nuerophenomenological perspective on the inner life of the teacher is the context for both the observations and practicum stages. The observations follow not only an awareness of the child but an awareness of the observer, her bodily sensations, feelings, ideas, possible projections, and openness to the experience of ‘what is happening.”