Marie Nelson <mnel@nlu.nl.edu>
Marie Nelson (mnel@nlu.nl.edu)
Sun, 24 Sep 1995 23:27:15 -0500 (CDT)
My name is Marie Nelson, and I teach at National-Louis University. I
taught writing for years, and since 1981 have facilitated teams of
teacher-researchers. Most of what I know I've learned from them, from
reading hundreds of detailed teaching logs and abstracting from thousands
of learning episodes recounted there or in our groups in vivid detail.
Other influences include Dewey, Suzanne Langer, Carl Rogers and
Vygotsky in the 60s; feminism and writing people--James Brittain & Nancy
Martin, Mina Shaughnessy, Don Murray--in the 70s; popularizers of the new
sciences (Gould, Zukoff, Hawking, Gleick, etc.) in the 80s. I'm interested
in change processes and in how disciplines seem to be growing together,
both around the edges--as in ever proliferating hyphenated specializa-
tions--and from the inside out. I suspect a paradigm shift, in the
broadest sense of the term, and am interested in the relevance of chaos
theory to personal, institutional and societal change.