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Jaepl, Vol. 11, Winter 2005-2006, Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Linda T. Calendrillo
Jaepl, Vol. 11, Winter 2005-2006, Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Linda T. Calendrillo
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Essays
Kami Day. We Learn More Than Just Writing.
In a composition class, students learn a great deal more, for good or ill, than just strategies for writing. This article shows that, as students and teachers learn to recognize and value their own inner teachers, they can also develop relationships with each other that nourish their spirits as well as their intellects.
Gina DeBlase. 'I Have a New Understanding': Critical Narrative Inquiry as Transformation in the English-History Classroom.
This case study highlights what roles classroom discussion and activity around literature, history, and society play in developing one student’s …
We Learn More Than Just Writing, Kami Day
We Learn More Than Just Writing, Kami Day
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
In a composition class, students learn a great deal more, for good or ill, than just strategies for writing. This article shows that, as students and teachers learn to recognize and value their own inner teachers, they can also develop relationships with each other that nourish their spirits as well as their intellects.
Headstands, Writing, And The Rhetoric Of Radical Self-Acceptance, Geraldine Deluca
Headstands, Writing, And The Rhetoric Of Radical Self-Acceptance, Geraldine Deluca
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By emphasizing the importance of patient practice as an end in itself, yoga offers a model teaching and learning writing that can help students move forward in a context of self-acceptance and find the sources of their own talents and values.
Reviews, Edward J. Sullivan, Gabriele Rico, Megan Brown, Kim Mccollum-Clark
Reviews, Edward J. Sullivan, Gabriele Rico, Megan Brown, Kim Mccollum-Clark
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Reviews
Edward J. Sullivan. Ken Wilber: Thought as Passion. (Frank Visser, 2003).
Gabriele Rico. A Way to Move: Rhetorics of Emotion and Composition Studies. (Ed. Dale Jacobs and Laura R. Micciche, 2003).
Megan Brown. Living the Narrative Life: Stories as a Tool for Meaning Making. (Gian S. Pagnucci, 2004).
Kim McCollum-Clark. Personally Speaking: Experience as Evidence in Academic Discourse. (Candace Spigelman, 2004).
Idioms As Cultural Commonplaces: Corporeal Lessons From Hokkien Idioms, Sue Hum
Idioms As Cultural Commonplaces: Corporeal Lessons From Hokkien Idioms, Sue Hum
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This essay uses idioms, especially Hokkien idioms, to counter the western predisposition of separating mind and body, arguing that they underscore the mind-body shift that occurs with the acquisition of academic discourses.
Poetry And The Art Of Meditation: Going Behind The Symbols, Stan Scott
Poetry And The Art Of Meditation: Going Behind The Symbols, Stan Scott
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Combining reader-response theory with spiritual teachings, this article explores how reading poetry may serve as an introduction to the art of meditation.
Connecting, Helen Walker, Louise Morgan, Amy Wink, Marcia Nell, Gergana Vitanova, Judy Huddleston
Connecting, Helen Walker, Louise Morgan, Amy Wink, Marcia Nell, Gergana Vitanova, Judy Huddleston
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Louise Morgan—Street Science: An English Teacher’s Introduction to Street Life.
Amy Wink—'In the Middle of Difficulty Lies Opportunity'— Albert Einstein
Marcia Nell—The New Partnership
Gergana Vitanova—Negotiating an Identity in Graduate School as a Second Language Speaker.
Judy Huddleston—A Cat in the Sun: Reflections on Teaching.
What Happens When We Read: Picturing A Reader’S Responsibilities, Laurence Musgrove
What Happens When We Read: Picturing A Reader’S Responsibilities, Laurence Musgrove
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A graphic representation of reading as a process enables students to respond more fully and responsibly to literature by attending to what they contribute to the act of reading, what the world to the text can offer, what kinds of responses are available to them, and what they can do to make sure they have responded as thoughtfully as possible.
Mindfulness, Buddhism, And Rogerian Argument, Alexandria Peary
Mindfulness, Buddhism, And Rogerian Argument, Alexandria Peary
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Use of Buddhist mindfulness practices with Rogerian argument highlights Roger’s ideas of empathy and conscious listening which help develop a rhetorical imagination in the student.
“I Have A New Understanding”: Critical Narrative Inquiry As Transformation In The English-History Classroom, Gina Deblase
“I Have A New Understanding”: Critical Narrative Inquiry As Transformation In The English-History Classroom, Gina Deblase
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
This case study highlights what roles classroom discussion and activity around literature, history, and society play in developing one student’s understanding of complex social issues, and what ways of talking and thinking develop over time.
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Editors' Message
Inner Work: Teaching and Learning (from) Within
”There lives the dearest freshness deep down things,” Gerald Manley Hopkins writes in God’s Grandeur, capturing in this line, as he sought to reveal through the marvelously unique sounds and rhythms of his poetry, the “inscape” or the unique inner essence of all natural things. “The dearest freshness deep down things” is also Parker Palmer’s focus in The Courage to Teach, where he argues for a teacher’s and a learner’s inner work: exploring “the inner landscape of the teaching self” because “[t]he more familiar we are with our inner …