David Chadwick comes to SpiritRidge from a background in educational theory. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, David studied under Dr. Susan Lytle and took into his subsequent research a model for reflective writing developed from Dr. Lytle's studies in metacognitive aspects of literacy.
This research in turn led to further post-graduate work at University of Massachusetts, where David utilized applications of Post-Structural and Feminist critical theory as well as Critical Discourse Analysis in an in-depth study of artists talking about and writing about art. This inspired an integrative model for facilitating critical consciousness through the rhetorical manipulation of subject position, a model with implied applications across the array of communicative genres and cultural and informational fields.
At SpiritRidge, David uses this experience in the work of effectively contextualizing and recontextualizing the IPM2, ICM2 and PAR models for a wide variety of markets and cultures and also in the management of the Institute's educational outreach programs.
In his spare time, David composes music, his most recent work being a commissioned live soundtrack performed for the 2008 Philadelphia Film Festival.
