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Remembering Things We’Ve Never Done: Memory’S Daughters And The Literary Experience, William C. Johnson
Remembering Things We’Ve Never Done: Memory’S Daughters And The Literary Experience, William C. Johnson
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Memory, essential in creative writing, inspires us to weave literary reading into the narrative of personal experience and to seek, through recollection, our psychic wholeness.
A Medical Humanities Course: A Pertinent Pause On The Medical Beat, Kathleen Welch
A Medical Humanities Course: A Pertinent Pause On The Medical Beat, Kathleen Welch
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This article summarizes the findings of one ethnographic study and demonstrates that, by emphasizing self- reflection and discussion, an interdisciplinary literature and medicine course provides medical students a brief but important, time for retrospection.
Writing Awareness, Gwen Gorzelsky
Writing Awareness, Gwen Gorzelsky
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The author argues that, by practicing embodied, metaphoric ethnography, educators can revise their roles in classroom social systems and so pursue the goals of critical pedagogy.
In The Name Of The Spirit, Lynn Briggs, Fred Schunter, Ray Melvin
In The Name Of The Spirit, Lynn Briggs, Fred Schunter, Ray Melvin
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The authors argue that naming experiences "spiritual" is important to an expanded understanding of goals, struggles, and success in their writing center practice.
New Locations For Discursive Agency: The Story Of Anandamai Ma, Mary Ann Cain
New Locations For Discursive Agency: The Story Of Anandamai Ma, Mary Ann Cain
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This paper aims to relocate our relationship to modes of knowledge that fall outside of Western rationalism and conceptual thought by relocating our understanding of agency through the figure of Anandamai Ma, a 20th century Hindu "saint.
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A Teacher’S Terminal Illness In The Secondary Classroom: The Effects Of Disclosure, Sarah Hochstetler
A Teacher’S Terminal Illness In The Secondary Classroom: The Effects Of Disclosure, Sarah Hochstetler
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How does it affect learning when cancer becomes the prevailing metaphor through which students see their teacher?
The Power Of The Poetic Lens: Why Teachers Need To Read Poems Together, Amy L. Eva, Carrie A. Bemis, Marie F. Quist, Bill Hollands
The Power Of The Poetic Lens: Why Teachers Need To Read Poems Together, Amy L. Eva, Carrie A. Bemis, Marie F. Quist, Bill Hollands
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Poetry reading circles can become the means for new (and experienced) teachers to reflect on their professional growth.
Fear Not The Trunchbull: How Teaching From A Humorous Outlook Supports Transformative Learning, Kathleen J. Cassity
Fear Not The Trunchbull: How Teaching From A Humorous Outlook Supports Transformative Learning, Kathleen J. Cassity
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Empirical and historical evidence suggest that humor is a key tool for discovering ways in which learning can become transformative.
Stillness In The Composition Classroom: Insight, Incubation, Improvisation, Flow, And Meditation, Ryan Crawford, Andreas Willhoff
Stillness In The Composition Classroom: Insight, Incubation, Improvisation, Flow, And Meditation, Ryan Crawford, Andreas Willhoff
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Studies of brain images provide scientific justification for encouraging meditation among young writers.
The Journey Metaphor’S Entailments For Framing Learning, Bradley Smith
The Journey Metaphor’S Entailments For Framing Learning, Bradley Smith
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Analysis of differing frames for learning to write shows that the journey metaphor best serves our efforts to convey how writing and learning are linked.
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Using Careless Speech For Careful, Well-Crafted Writing— Whatever Its Style, Peter Elbow
Using Careless Speech For Careful, Well-Crafted Writing— Whatever Its Style, Peter Elbow
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Bringing the resources of speech to writing enables writers to understand and attain written eloquence.
Jaepl, Vol. 19, Winter 2013-2014, Joona Smitherman Trapp, Brad Peters
Jaepl, Vol. 19, Winter 2013-2014, Joona Smitherman Trapp, Brad Peters
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Essays
Peter Elbow - Using Careless Speech for Careful, Well-Crafted Writing - Whatever Its Style
Keith Rhodes & Monica M. Robinson - Sheep in Wolves' Clothing: How Composition's Social Construction Reinstates Expressivist Solipsism (And Even Current-Traditional Conservatism)
Bradley Smith - The Journey Metaphor's Entailments for Framing Learning
Sarah Hochstetler - A Teacher's Terminal Illness in the Secondary Classroom: The Effects of Disclosure
Anna O. Soter - It's (Not) Just a Figure of Speech: Rescuing a Metaphor
Amy L. Eva, Carrie A. Bemis, Marie F. Quist, & Bill Hollands - The Power of the Poetic Lens: Why Teachers Need to Read …
It’S (Not) Just A Figure Of Speech: Rescuing Metaphor, Anna O. Soter
It’S (Not) Just A Figure Of Speech: Rescuing Metaphor, Anna O. Soter
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Look for ways that students can study metaphor in everyday language, rather than confine its study to poetry.
Connecting, Helen Walker, Bob Randolph, Leigh Ann Chow, Andrea Saylor, Jill Moyer Sunday, Kattie Hogan, Matt Ittig, John Patrick Cleary
Connecting, Helen Walker, Bob Randolph, Leigh Ann Chow, Andrea Saylor, Jill Moyer Sunday, Kattie Hogan, Matt Ittig, John Patrick Cleary
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Connecting
Helen Walker - Gratitude
Bob Randolph - Poetry Teacher's Prayer
Leigh Ann Chow - What Teachers Carry
Andrea Saylor - A Brief History of Holy Writing
Jill Moyer Sunday - For My Students
Kattie Hogan & Matt Ittig - Lines on the Body: Confronting Personal Experiences through Poetry
John Patrick Cleary - New Teacher
Learning And Teaching In Other Ways, Ilene Dawn Alexander
Learning And Teaching In Other Ways, Ilene Dawn Alexander
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A teaching and learning consultant suggests that “oscillating narratives” are the means for helping unconventional students become critically aware.
Sheep In Wolves’ Clothing: How Composition’S Social Construction Reinstates Expressivist Solipsism (And Even Current-Traditional Conservatism), Keith Rhodes, Monica M. Robinson
Sheep In Wolves’ Clothing: How Composition’S Social Construction Reinstates Expressivist Solipsism (And Even Current-Traditional Conservatism), Keith Rhodes, Monica M. Robinson
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Reframing the theory of social construction from Romantic/ Classic perspectives yields surprising insights about writing studies.
Thoughts On Teaching As A Practice Of Love, Sharon Marshall
Thoughts On Teaching As A Practice Of Love, Sharon Marshall
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Approaching classroom diversity from a Nichiren Buddhist perspective guides students toward a “value-creating education.”
Book Reviews, Judy Halden-Sullivan, Karen Walker, Timothy Shea, Julie Nichols, Edward Sullivan
Book Reviews, Judy Halden-Sullivan, Karen Walker, Timothy Shea, Julie Nichols, Edward Sullivan
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Book Reviews
Judy Halden-Sullivan - Making the Familiar Unfamiliar
Karen Walker - Ritchhart, Ron, Mark Church, and Karin Morrison. Making Thinking Visible. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2011.
Timothy Shea - Jobrack, Beverlee. Tyranny of the Textbook. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2012.
Julie Nichols - FitzGerald, William. Spiritual Modalities: Prayer as Rhetoric and Performance. University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2012.
Edward Sullivan - Quesada, Donna. The Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers. NY: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011.