PSYCHOLOGY Theories of the Creative Process Ms. Doyle Alexander Berman x6372 Music and Other Adventures with Kids. Recording interactions with children at the Early Childhood Center and my observations. Emily Cameron x6399 Two Artists and How Their Work Developed. Interviews with two artists on the development of their work with special attention to turning points in their art works. Clay Chapman x6409 Superheros in Childhood and the Villains that Compete with Them. Close attention is being paid to the pre-k kids at the Early Childhood Center to see who takes on superhero characteristics, such as the "the good guy," "bad guy," "sidekick," and "the damsel." Sarah Horton x6927 The Inner Workings of Dostoyevsky. Looking at the creative process of the author as he worked on his various novels. Ann Karp x6761 Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication in Two Year Olds. Working from participative observations of a class of 2 year-olds at the Early Childhood Center, children's development of language is studied. Porochista Khakpour x6937 "Getting Stuck" among writers. Currently conducting several interviews with writing faculty (one poet, one fiction writer) and a student poet, with an examination of various published essays by writers like Alice Munro, Adrienne Rich, Ted Hughes, etc. on the writing process. Allyson Kloss Fran Lebowitz in New York City. How the author's writing relates to and revolves around her life as a writer living in NYC. Jeffrey Leavell 212-253-8215 Healing Through Story Telling. Reading fiction or autobiographical coming out stories - trying to understand the differences and similarities between fiction and autobiographical narration and the healing powers of story telling. Gale Robinson 212-595-6569 Mothers and Daughters in Virginia Woolf's Writings. I am reading Hermione Lee's biography of Virginia Woolf and To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, and Moments of Being, and through them extrapolating Wolfe's relationship with her own mother. Jacob Shapiro x6766 Teaching Four Year Olds As a Creative Act. Observations of a teacher's actions in solving classroom problems and an interview with a teacher with a view toward understanding the process of creative teaching. Belinda Smith x6359 The Creative Process Through Creating a Role. I will be looking at the actor's process of creating a character and reading varying accounts of this process such as Meisner, Stanislavski, Uta Hagen, Strasburg as well as primary accounts from actors themselves. Elizabeth Sparger x6538 Folk Art and Traditional Art. I will explore biographical and autobiographical writings of a folk artist and a traditional artist from the same period. Lisa St. John 914-666-8307 Hands Tell a Story. Photographing Children at the Early Childhood Center allowing pictures to create text, form their own language. Researching how text and pictures work in conjunction. What drives a story. Language Development Ms. Franklin Amber Bruno x6959 Vygotskian Perspectives on Culture & Cognition. Summarizing the writings of Vygotsky pertaining to the interplay between culture and language development and a discussion of some modern interpretations of these writings. Emily Cleveland Use of sign language by chimpanzees. I will review the work of researchers using sign language systems with chimpanzees - how can chimpanzees use sign language? For what purpose? What implications does this have? Rachael Cohen x6595 Language & The Right Hemisphere of the Brain. I will be exploring the existence of language in the right hemisphere, using studies of left hemisphere and the various types of aphasia. Deena Fontana Social and Educational Aspects of Bilingualism. A brief general overview of bilingualism cognitive and political aspects; emerging from this overview I would like to explore the bilingual experience and education that is conducive to teaching children a second language. In addition I am working with a 7 year old bilingual girl in order to enrich the work. Alyssa Gorelick Watching Language Development. I will be video-taping a 19-month-old boy over a period of two months, in order to see the natural progression of his language development from expressive jargonizing onward. Stephan Greving x6362 Media and Language. How does media such as television, video games, and movies affect childrens acquisition of language. Katrina Harb Language and Literacy Development. Looking at bilingual children and how language affects their literacy learning. Kamala Sankaram x6793 Exploring the Existence of Musical Languages. Can music be considered a language of its own right with a complete syntactical structure, or is it merely a communication system? If it is a language, can it be applied to develop communication skills in those with severe communicative disorders i.e. autistics, aphasics. Kirsten Shane x2289 Translating Genders. Discourse analysis of male and female e-mail correspondents. Analysis of linguistic interactions between male and female - and general differences in ways the sexes use the English language to communicate.