Descriptive Inquiry as Contemplative Practice.
September 1, 2006 Kathleen R. Kesson, Cecelia E. Traugh, Felix Perez
This article draws upon and integrates a number of distinct but overlapping areas of inquiry in the literature on teaching: teacher inquiry, reflective practice, spirituality and education, and contemplative practice. In it, we examine the implementation of a particular phenomenological form of teacher inquiry, the Descriptive Review, in an urban teacher preparation program. The authors...