DIS/ORIENTATION EDUCATION
Jessica Berenblum is a graduate student in the Dual Language
Childhood Special and General Education program at Bank Street College of
Education.
‘I became interested in researching children with deficits in
spatial relations because of my personal history. I was once such a child
myself, and even in adulthood a baffled expression overtakes my face at the
oddest moments, sign of the rebellious grey matter striking once again to
confound my understanding of space and time.’
Jessica created a research project into children with deficits
in spatial relations, because of her own problems with navigation. She explains
that she feels it is a subject that needs further investigation and
understanding as it is often a difficulty that is unsupported.
Her project began as an attempt to find out how humans
orient successfully in an environment. Her website is a culmination of her
research on this topic.
Her research
proposal is:
I have never
understood how other people find their way around and I cannot. What kind
of “mindwork” are they doing? Can it be learned? Based on the Visible
Thinking approach to learning, I know that understanding other people’s
mental processing can help me apply aspects of it to my own.
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