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In choosing a graduate school, it’s important to look at what opportunities you will have to learn the different types of knowledge crucial to your chosen career. There are four types of knowledge you will be afforded in SOLES: declarative— factual knowledge; procedural—how to knowledge; contextual—what you learn in the context of a job; and somatic—sensing knowledge, or what some people call intuition, or gut feeling. You will learn declarative knowledge in your classes when we use teaching strategies such as lecture, discussion, reading and reflection, film, video, narratives, and independent study. Procedural knowledge will be taught using strategies such as case studies, role play, assessment center activities, and problem-based learning. Contextual knowledge will be taught through opportunities for doing field-based projects, apprenticeships and internships. A source of knowledge largely ignored in Western cultures, somatic knowledge implies an education that trusts individuals to learn from their ability to attend and to listen to the information they are receiving from interaction of self with the environment. Howard Gardner’s concepts of the intrapersonal (knowledge of self) and interpersonal (skill in interacting with others) intelligences, are closely connected to somatic knowledge. Some of our courses in SOLES use methodologies such as case-in-point as one strategy to address somatic knowledge. Finally, because all our students are required to have an international experience, you will have multiple opportunities to integrate all four types of knowledge. We are proud of our innovative teaching methods, and we believe this a key factor that differentiates us from other graduate schools.
Paula A. Cordeiro, Ed.D. Dean, School of Leadership and Education Sciences cordeiro@sandiego.edu