Role Of The Body And Of Sensory Experience

Before attempting to submerge oneself into the unknown and trying to understand the customs and behaviors of a foreign culture, an anthropologist first needs to inspect his or her own background and influences. In spite of all the efforts to be objective, a researcher’s personality will inevitably always be a part of the research. Even when he or she “sees” through the eyes

Approximately 90% of occupational therapists, who work in school settings, use interventions based on the sensory integration (SI) theory and the understanding of sensory processing to treat sensory processing disorder (SPD) (Ahn, Miller, Milberger, & McIntosh, 2004). A sensory diet is one of the interventions based on the SI theory and consists of a combination of sensorimotor activities designed to provide a child sensory stimuli for facilitating adaptive behavior. The dissertation focuses on investigating the effectiveness of a sensory diet in improving a child’s engagement in school activities.

Jean Ayres an occupational therapist, developed the theory of sensory integration in 1960 (Smith, S., Mailloux, Z., & Erwin, B. n.d.). Jean Ayres defined sensory integration as “The neurological process that organizes sensations from one’s body and from the environment and makes it possible to use the body effectively in the environment” (Ayres,1989, p. 22). Occupational therapists are trained in adapting the environment to address such individual client needs (What Is Occupational Therapy, (n.d.). Jean Ayres believed that the various sensory systems allow us to successfully interact with the environment (Ayres, 1972, p. 1). Moreover, additional research also suggests that a child requires appropriate levels of arousal, orientation, and attention in order to interact and engage with the environment (Case-Smith & Bryan, 1999).

Upon reading chapter 8, entitled “Sensory Experiences” I was able to identify several senses of individuals and how those sense affects children in the classroom. The three most common sense that stood out to me were: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. However, these senses are the most common senses used in early childhood classrooms. Children use their senses to discover and explore things around them such as: their environment or peers. Children whom use their visual senses prefer to see photos, cards and charts. As a future educator, I must be able to identify my students; learning styles, strengths, and weakness. By doing so, I can provide art activities based on their learning and style. In the arts and crafts center, students are able

Claire (OT) provided Zelna and Stanley, Jean-Louis’s parents with the Sensory Profile caregiver questionnaire to complete in their own time and Zelna has returned for marking prior to appointment. Sensory processing is our ability to determine a range of sensory information such as sight, sound, smell, movement and touch within the brain. Sometimes one or more of the senses may be under or over reactive to stimulation/sensation and thus a child may be under or over aroused. For learning, it is important to be in an optimum state of arousal. The Sensory Profile is a caregiver questionnaire that contains statements about children’s responses to sensory events in daily life.

The title for the position itself expresses the need for a focus on qualitative methods, which as stated above has been greatly crafted through the combination of tools and methods learned in the discipline. The section, Primary Purpose, calls even further for a need of expertise in qualitative and mixed method research. Regarding quantitative methods, anthropologists would likely develop these skills, perhaps not to a similar level of expertise as those of qualitative methods. However, by using a mix of both qualitative and quantitative methods it would not be a major weakness in this context as expertise in qualitative methods can support those in quantitative. As the primary purpose, it is clear that this strength of anthropology is the most fundamental within this context. It is with this skill that they would find a great deal of success, if they are able to surpass the challenge of communication and interpersonal connection as will be discussed

I am not a native anthropologist, however, I like interacting with people of diverse background to understand the major issues that affects them including social matters. My aim of understanding the underlying issues is to contribute by influencing individuals viewpoints especially on issues that require critical thinking (Kuper, 2006, p. 1). For instance, I would use the information and knowledge gun control matters I have in offering credible insights to the critics of

When preparing for my fieldwork I read so much about the field, that I had a feeling I had already been there for a while. I had the feeling I already knew the people and knew their motives, because of all the researches I already read. I almost forgot that I went into the field in order to research my hypotheses and to examine perceptions of L.A. women, instead of just confirming my own assumptions. It is important to be aware of one’s one assumptions and ideas about which way your research is heading. An anthropologist also needs to accept that one’s own assumptions and ideas of the field one’s entering, is always the researcher’s subjectivity, and one should be aware of these assumptions in order to be as objective as possible. The strength of anthropology lies in going back to the emic perspective of the research population and the setting one’s academic ego and expectations

Many questions are of concern to the cultural anthropologist. How do various peoples live? What provides meaning for their lives? What are their social values—what they have learned from others about what they consider important and valuable? What are their rules and standards for proper behavior? What is the source and nature of their knowledge about the world and each other? What are their beliefs about the supernatural? What are their marriage and family patterns? What are their political systems? How do they raise their

Doing ethnography, again, means describing a culture. The ethnographer seeks to understand another way of life from the native point of view. Spradley (1979) rightfully places emphasis on learning from people rather than studying about people (p.3). A successful ethnographer not only collects data about a certain people, but seeks first and foremost to be taught by the people. Spradley and McCurdy (1972) note that "ethnography seeks to describe a culture using those criteria that his informants employ as they observe, interpret, and describe their own experiences during the course of life" (p.18).

2. Fieldwork - What I read from the text about A anthropologists fieldwork is pretty interesting. The fieldwork that is done by an anthropologist is to completely immerse oneself the culter of another. Doing that is the only true way to understand that culters way of life and to truley gane insight about it. A anthropologist will completely forget about there own culter and act as if there culter they are studying is the there own. This is usually done by living with the people that the anthropologist is studing, completely surrounding themself by there culter.

What is anthropology? How does observing with an anthropological manner help us understand the world? According to Kenneth Guest, anthropology is: “The study of the full scope of human diversity, past and present, and the application of that knowledge to help people of different backgrounds better understand one another” (Guest 7). Anthropology helps one better understand and engage with the world as he or she moves through it. Specifically, cultural anthropology is: “The study of people 's communities, behaviors, beliefs, institutions, including how people make means as they live, work, and play together” (Guest 16). Where culture, is the learned and shared knowledge that people use to generate behavior and interpret experience (Leynse

The faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. Those five things are what completes the 5 senses. They all send messages to our brain, which interprets the messages and interprets what is around us. “We

There are many anthropologists out there who each have their own findings and thoughts. The one anthropologist who I felt I really connected with and was very interesting in his findings and thoughts, was anthropologist Franz Boas. Boas was a white, Jewish male. He was known as the Father of American Anthropology. Franz Boas has demonstrated major work in physical anthropology, linguistics, Cultural anthropology, and the famous four field approach. Additionally, through learning about Boas’ findings and thoughts, I was able to engage with his work, evaluate it, think about the works limitations, ramifications, and its lasting import. Boas’ has made a difference in many peoples lives and has been very involved.

Armchair anthropologists conclude their research by studying artifacts and not conducting the proper research required (Horn 2012). Theories made by armchair anthropologists are based on assumptions rather than facts and evidence, this can cause misunderstandings between different races and cultures that are being studied leading to false information being spread and becoming popularized. Before ethnographic fieldwork was