onship between student and educator is the focus of my research. Question: How does the relationship between student and educator influence the learning process? Secondary question: What can be learned about the relationship between student and educator by teaching indigenous dance forms, and how can this knowledge be applied to the Western education system? Why are relationships important? A review of the research literature shows that the authors have a lot to say about positive relationships with students. Thompson (1998) states, “The most powerful weapon available to secondary school teachers who want to promote a favorable learning climate is a positive relationship with our students” (p. 6). Canter and Canter (1997) state that we can all remember lessons where we didn't try very hard because we didn't like our teachers. Speaking from my personal experience as an educator, I realized the importance of the relationship or connection linked to teaching. My students responded to instructions and retained knowledge when a connection occurred. Research strategy The research will be conducted using the narrative method. The rationale for choosing this method is; narrative research favors the discovery of hidden meaning buried deep within the culture and the interviewee. According to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, many actions practiced within a culture are not validated by conscious reasons. They are performed without the interviewee truly knowing why he or she reacts the way he or she does to a situation. Lévi-Strauss argues that indigenous teaching practices fall into the category of practices located deep within culture (1969). Narrative research reaches into the deep ethics of the participant and the culture. The n...... middle of paper...... Hawaii and here in San Francisco I realized that the experience was different in each place. The topic of localization could play an important role in my research and I intend to be aware of this aspect. An interdisciplinary process will be undertaken, which will include several disciplines including anthropology, history and dance. I consider this interdisciplinary process focused on the individual from different perspectives. Edgar Morin states that human beings are multidimensional: knowledge must recognize this multidimensionality and insert its data into it. Some of the information I might find during narrative research might be unexpected. Once the unexpected has occurred, we must be able to revise our thoughts and ideas instead of pushing and stuffing the new fact into a discipline in an attempt to fit it into a format that really can't accommodate it (Morin, 2001).

Topic > onship between student and educator is the focus of my research. Question: How does the relationship between student and educator influence the learning process? Secondary question: What can be learned about the relationship between student and educator by teaching indigenous dance forms, and how can this knowledge be applied to the Western education system? Why are relationships important? A review of the research literature shows that the authors have a lot to say about positive relationships with students. Thompson (1998) states, “The most powerful weapon available to secondary school teachers who want to promote a favorable learning climate is a positive relationship with our students” (p. 6). Canter and Canter (1997) state that we can all remember lessons where we didn't try very hard because we didn't like our teachers. Speaking from my personal experience as an educator, I realized the importance of the relationship or connection linked to teaching. My students responded to instructions and retained knowledge when a connection occurred. Research strategy The research will be conducted using the narrative method. The rationale for choosing this method is; narrative research favors the discovery of hidden meaning buried deep within the culture and the interviewee. According to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, many actions practiced within a culture are not validated by conscious reasons. They are performed without the interviewee truly knowing why he or she reacts the way he or she does to a situation. Lévi-Strauss argues that indigenous teaching practices fall into the category of practices located deep within culture (1969). Narrative research reaches into the deep ethics of the participant and the culture. The n...... middle of paper...... Hawaii and here in San Francisco I realized that the experience was different in each place. The topic of localization could play an important role in my research and I intend to be aware of this aspect. An interdisciplinary process will be undertaken, which will include several disciplines including anthropology, history and dance. I consider this interdisciplinary process focused on the individual from different perspectives. Edgar Morin states that human beings are multidimensional: knowledge must recognize this multidimensionality and insert its data into it. Some of the information I might find during narrative research might be unexpected. Once the unexpected has occurred, we must be able to revise our thoughts and ideas instead of pushing and stuffing the new fact into a discipline in an attempt to fit it into a format that really can't accommodate it (Morin, 2001).