According to Palmer (1998), Teachers possess power to create conditions to help students learn or to keep them from learning. Palmer (1998) used strategies aimed at increasing student understanding though storytelling and reflective thinking. Palmer embraced the narrative pedagogy, inviting students to be part of the discussion and frequently employed an interpretive pedagogy with Socratic questioning to stimulate students’ thinking. The narrative pedagogy is a community …show more content…
Palmer developed his theory over a period spanning more than 20 years. His theory is intuitive, but the theory is not well described with specific definitions. There is some discrepancy with some references referring to student and some referring to knower or learner and some references referring to teacher and some referring to knower, educator, or faculty. Concepts are not completely theoretically and operationally defined. The lack of clear propositions and operational definitions does not allow for measurement or testing of hypotheses. However, his description of phenomena is well suited for use in phenomenology or ethnology qualitative or mixed methods research. Palmer’s theory may be applied to interdisciplinary education, demonstrating …show more content…
Blount from the Hart Leadership Program at Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University described service opportunities in leadership; and Larry Braskamp from Loyola University Chicago, Lois Tratvetter from Northwestern University, and Kelly Ward from Washing State University described whole teacher development to teach the whole