Academic Essays

I have written a number of different essays that that can be viewed. They are on a number of different topics, mostly my writing for while I am working on my Ph.D. in Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral studies. The following is a list of all of the essays in my resources.

• Review of Three Articles on Creative Inquiry
• The Ph.D. and Creative Inquiry: A Short Synthesis Paper
• An Original Contribution: Creativity in Academia
• Bridging Identities: Looking at the Borders to Myself and My Research
• Bridging Identities: Developing Faculty for Understanding
• A Memory From the Future: Looking Back Through an Imaginary Time Machine
• The Forward Movement of Science: A Close Reading of Three Academic Articles
• Book Review On Becoming an Artist: Personal Experiences Connected To Research for Mindful Creativity
• The Basics: General Thoughts About My Area of Inquiry
• The Connection Between Self Research, Transformation, and Social Constructionism: The Quantified Self
• The Systematic Viewpoint of Transdisciplinarity
• My Dissertation: Creatively Opening More Aspects of Resilience
• Resilience and Applying a Transdisciplinary Lens
• Cooperative Team Approach and Pragmatic Fallabilism
• The Skills Necessary for Completion of a Ph.D. Program: A Look Into Personality, Self-Creation, and Self-Care
• The Analytical Tools of Transformation: Situating Self in Society and Transformation
• Applying A Transdisciplinary Approach to Inquiry: A Brief Paper Discussing Intellectual Interests
• Paradigmatic Aspects of Inquiry-Based Research
• Paradigmatic Assumptions: What the OEAM
• Transdisciplinarity: The What and the Why of a Different Framework for Thinking About Inquiry
• A Letter to a Friend, or Colleague or Mentor
• Participatory Research Methodology and Its Intersection with Social Work, Special Education Services, and Resilience
• Social Virtuosity, Practice and COVID-19
• Analyzing Theoretical Frameworks: Pedagogy of the Oppressed as a Foundational Element of Participatory Research
• Participatory Research Based Program Evaluation Theoretical Framework
• Resilience and Dimensions of Applied Transdisciplinarity
• Organization and Dedication: My Plan for Exploring the Ecology of Resilience
• Participatory Action Research: Connecting the Ontology and Epistemology of Transformative Framework
• Bite by Bite: My Process for Immersing in Literature
• Pilot Study Design: The Participant, Interview Questions, Researcher Positionality, and Informed Consent
• The Interview Process: Components of My Plan for a Semi-Structured, Power Balanced, Story-telling Inquiry
• Ongoing Continuing Education: A Source for Academic Community Resources
• The Broad Strokes of Narrative Inquiry: Looking at Complexity and Narrative Accounts
• The Academic Process: Uncovering Clarity
• Depiction of Social Justice Needs through Theoretical Framing
• Discussion on Creators on Creating
• Finding Journals in Your Area of Interest: Trauma and Resilience
• Holistic Worldview and A Comparasson with Social Work
• The Path to the Ph.D.: Intertwining My Experiences and Research Topic
• My Dissertation: Foundational Aspects of Resilience
• The Future of Education: Discussion of Morin's Seven Complex Lessons in Education
• Inquiry-Driven Approach to Research as Integrative and Complex
• Free Play: Some Standouts of Nachmanovitch's Book
• Developing a Narrative Inquiry Pilot Study: The Experiences of an EBD Teacher Through the Lens of Trauma and Resilience
• Theory and Literature Review: Participatory Action Research
• Professional Learning Communities as a Vehicle for Implementing Trauma-informed Schools
• A Professional Learning Community for Developing Trauma-Informed Practices using Participatory Action Methods: Inquiry Outline
• Mass Incarceration as a Descriptive Understanding from a Minority Group
• My Dissertation Format and Implementation: My Biggest Anxiety and Doubt
• Developing a Disciplinary Understanding of Social Work, Psychology, and Ecology: Moving Towards a Transdisciplinary Framework for Resilience
• The Analysis of My Interview: Reflection of Analysis of Narrative in Context
• School-Age Youth, Trauma, and Resilience: A Qualitative Interview with a Teacher to Understand Perspective of Working with Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities
• The Significance of a Story
• The Totalitarian Mindset and Serving Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities
• Transformation, Creativity and Some of the Things I Have Learned
• What Does a Dissertation Include: A Review of Two Examples
• What is a Ph.D.: Making an Original Contribution
• Transformational Outcomes for the Ph.D.
• Understanding Decentering: How Paradinamic Frameworks Impact the Inquiry
• Understanding Disciplinary Specific Content within Transdisciplinarity
• Understanding Theoretical Frameworks Through the Example of Participatory Research
• Universal Dignity: An Intrinsic Quality
• Working with Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities and Compassion Fatigue
• Vision and Social Change: The Courage to See