間眅埶AV

Research

My research has historically situated itself around creating meaningful relationships with students to enhance deep engagement in learning. The specific focus has been on narrative and Jungian archetypes.

Today, I have expanded my research to include interspecies communication as a means of increasing empathy and awareness. I find myself asking the question what knowledge best enables us to take care of ourselves, one another and the creatures that inhabit our planet?

I have purchased land and built a farm dedicated to animal assisted learning where PDP, undergraduate and graduate students from 間眅埶AV come to develop concentration and reduce anxiety before examinations. To that end, I have creaeted a website with related research and my own research and writing:

My professional development has moved from studying Jungian archetypes and being certified to use such instruments as MBTI and OTCI to being certified as an EAGALIAN horse therapist.

My teaching is imbedded in the research I am presently engaged in and presently I have creating a course entitled Nature, Nurture and Narrative combining engagement with nature, equine therapy and the writing of narrative to increasesensitivity and ability to relate to others and engage in meaningful dialogue.

As a result, both my teaching and my research welcome a divergent, multi-faceted stance, welcoming ambiguity and a willingness to overturn assumptions.  There is a tension in my research which mistrusts linear cause and effect and which promotes questions resulting from inquiry as much as answers.  Imbedded in all of my teaching and research is a strong emotional connection and trust that emotions accompany engagement of all kinds.

Research Grants

  • 2016
    Animal Assisted Learning to Reduce Anxiety in Undergraduate course
    TLC, 間眅埶AV, $5000
  • 2013
    Program Recruitment and Design of an Innovative EdD Program
    TLC, 間眅埶AV, $5000
  • 2012
    Reflexivity in Online Distance Education
    Mamchur, C. & Espinoza, M.
    TLC, 間眅埶AV, $5,000
  • 2010
    Taking Risks (Documentary)
    $5,000
  • 2010
    199 Speaks (Documentary)
    $5,000
  • 2010
    Feature It
    Telefilm Canada, $7,500
  • 2009
    Producing the Thriller.
    Telefilm Canada, $7,000
  • 2008
    Travel Grant, SSHRC, $1500
  • 2007
    Creating Authentic Characters
    WIDC funding, $5,000
  • 2007
    Creative Process
    SSHRC, $4,000
  • 2006
    Process of Visual Artists: A Tri-angular study
    $5000

 

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