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Observation as methodology is a critical aspect of the Sound to Symbol methodology.
“While observing children as they play folk song-games, I have seen children express physical/perceptual and social/emotional responses, I have also seen them express imaginative/cognitive and musical/language responses during play. But these separations and categories are only useful for purposes of describing. In the lived experience of children playing, perceptual, cognitive and social responses are all interconnected; one experience never acts in isolation of the other two. A child is ‘all of a piece’.
After more than thirty years of observing children ‘wholly’ absorbed while playing folk song-games, I am convinced that this particular form of social play holds great potential for evoking a ‘whole child’ response from children.”
Dr. Fleurette Sweeney
Dr Sweeney is the Executive Director of the Living Language Institute. She has over 50 years of teaching experience and has been developing the Sound-to-Symbol methodology over the past 30 years.
Dr. Kathleen Forsythe has developed the methodology of Observing for Learning grounded in the statement by Dr.Humberto Maturana: "Everything seen is seen by an observer." (Humberto Maturana- Everything is seen by an Observer, in Gaia: A Way of Knowing, William Irwin Thompson(ed.) Lindisfarne Press, New York 1987)
Observing for learning opens the possibility to see the other
as legitimate...as the learner is...and not as we think he or she should be. Only then can we generate a space of love, the only emotion that expands intelligence. Observing for learning is observing for conduct that is adequate to indicate learning.
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