The butterfly whisperer: representing a gifted student’s connection with nature through poetic inquiry
Location
1052
Format Type
Event
Format Type
Paper
Start Date
January 2018
End Date
January 2018
Abstract
Scholars suggest that children enjoy a greater connection with the natural world and encourage the nurturing of this relationship so they grow to value rather than fear nature. During this presentation, the author shares his paper, “The Butterfly Whisperer: Representing a Gifted Student’s Connection with Nature Through Poetic Inquiry,” recently published in the Journal of Poetry Therapy. The article explains how Found Poetry was used to represent the lived experiences of a gifted, fourth-grade student, who enjoyed a close relationship with natural surroundings. A detailed explanation of the methodology-collecting data through interviews and participant journal entries and selecting phrases and words form that data that best captured the student’s experience-- is given. Data representation is shared as three researcher-voiced poems (“Nature’s Child”,“Nature’s Mind”, and “The Butterfly Whisperer”). A discussion follows on how using poetic inquiry assisted the researcher in vicariously and evocatively representing the student’s experiences, hopefully causing readers to reconsider their own relationship with nature.
The butterfly whisperer: representing a gifted student’s connection with nature through poetic inquiry
1052
Scholars suggest that children enjoy a greater connection with the natural world and encourage the nurturing of this relationship so they grow to value rather than fear nature. During this presentation, the author shares his paper, “The Butterfly Whisperer: Representing a Gifted Student’s Connection with Nature Through Poetic Inquiry,” recently published in the Journal of Poetry Therapy. The article explains how Found Poetry was used to represent the lived experiences of a gifted, fourth-grade student, who enjoyed a close relationship with natural surroundings. A detailed explanation of the methodology-collecting data through interviews and participant journal entries and selecting phrases and words form that data that best captured the student’s experience-- is given. Data representation is shared as three researcher-voiced poems (“Nature’s Child”,“Nature’s Mind”, and “The Butterfly Whisperer”). A discussion follows on how using poetic inquiry assisted the researcher in vicariously and evocatively representing the student’s experiences, hopefully causing readers to reconsider their own relationship with nature.
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