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Full-Text Articles in Education
Uniting Creativity And Research: A Holistic Approach To Learning, Susan A. Schiller
Uniting Creativity And Research: A Holistic Approach To Learning, Susan A. Schiller
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The academy needs to move closer to a holistic form of education, one that values creativity and research equally.
Connecting, Helen Walker, Darina Garcia, Ryan Skinnell, Lee Roecher, Louise Morgan
Connecting, Helen Walker, Darina Garcia, Ryan Skinnell, Lee Roecher, Louise Morgan
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Helen Walker. Connecting.
Danina Garcia —Message from a Student Writer.
Libby Falk Jones—Anger in the Teaching Life
Ryan Skinnell —Connections of a First-Year Teacher
Lee Roecher —Guiding the Passion.
Louise Morgan —Emails to Blow Off Steam
Reviews, Mary Pettice, Kerrie R. H. Farkas, Edward Sullivan, Brad Lucas
Reviews, Mary Pettice, Kerrie R. H. Farkas, Edward Sullivan, Brad Lucas
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Reviews
Mary Pettice. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. (Ed. Anne Frances Wysocki, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Cynthia L. Selfe, and Geoffrey Sirc, 2004).
Kerrie R. H. Farkas. Writing at the End of the World . (Richard Miller, 2005).
Edward Sullivan. Field Notes on the Compassionate Life: A Search for the Soul of Kindness. (Marc Ian Barasch, 2005).
Brad Lucas. (Re)Writing Craft: Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies. (Tim Mayers, 2005).
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The Missing Body–Yoga And Higher Education, Judith Beth Cohen
The Missing Body–Yoga And Higher Education, Judith Beth Cohen
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Using her own yoga practice as a basis, this author argues for more bodily involvement in learning and offers several exercises she has used to accomplish this.
Writing Aphrodite: Imagining A Rhetoric Of Desire For A Feminist Writing Course, Hildy Miller
Writing Aphrodite: Imagining A Rhetoric Of Desire For A Feminist Writing Course, Hildy Miller
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Reaching back to the post-Jungian goddess feminism of decades past, this essay shows how the mythical figure Aphrodite can serve as an image for an alternative rhetoric of desire in a contemporary feminist writing class.
Mcluhan’S Warning, Frye’S Strategy, Emerson’S Dream, Rich Murphy
Mcluhan’S Warning, Frye’S Strategy, Emerson’S Dream, Rich Murphy
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McLuhan's Warning, Frye's Strategy, Emerson's Dream argues the vital function of literary writing in the academy. The essay maps a road from the warnings of catastrophe by Marshall McLuhan to Emerson's dream of all American citizens being poets through the writing strategies of Northrop Frye. It is argued that what one learns through literary writing is especially important during the crises that are ongoing in the West.
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
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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.
“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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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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.
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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 …
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Editors' Message
At Risk: Teaching and Writing Outside the Safety Zone
In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education released its damning indictment of American education. In the opening sentence of the report, the authors announce: "Our Nation is at risk." National prosperity, security, and civility are being "eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity" resulting from the failures of our schools and colleges.
Within this context "risk," defined by Webster's as "the possibility of suffering loss," is something to be avoided, or, if that is not possible, something to be managed. Thus, children struggling for success in school …
Jaepl, Vol. 10, Winter 2004-2005, Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Linda T. Calendrillo
Jaepl, Vol. 10, Winter 2004-2005, Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Linda T. Calendrillo
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Essays
Lynn Z. Bloom. The Seven Deadly Virtues.
The university stifles most creative writers except the most intrepid—even reckless, the good along with the bad—in the process of teaching them to write according to the conventions of the academy in general, and their specific disciplines in particular.
David L. Wallace. Shallow Literacy, Timid Teaching, and Cultural Impotence.
Any attempt to move to a deeper notion of literacy in our theory and pedagogy must—among other things—involve us facing our own self interest and expecting disruption in our own classrooms, departments, and universities.
Roben Torosyan. Listening: Beyond Telling to 'Being' …
Listening: Beyond Telling To “Being” What We Want To Teach, Roben Torosyan
Listening: Beyond Telling To “Being” What We Want To Teach, Roben Torosyan
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In response to a culture of polarized argument, this paper shows a way to provide people with practice at deep listening and understanding. The author examines ways in which self-disclosure about problems of dialog may be an ideal means for teachers or leaders to show people alternate ways of being in the world of meaning making.
Analyzing Dominant Cultural Narratives Of Religious Pluralism: A Study Of Oprah.Com, Patricia Webb, Zach Waggoner
Analyzing Dominant Cultural Narratives Of Religious Pluralism: A Study Of Oprah.Com, Patricia Webb, Zach Waggoner
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This essay analyzes Oprah.com, the website for multimedia mogul Oprah Winfrey, to examine the tensions between dominate religious ideologies and pluralism in America.
Connecting, Helen Walker, Joanne Katzmarek, Steven L. Vanderstaay, Irwin Ramirez Leopando, Christopher Sweet, Howard Wolf
Connecting, Helen Walker, Joanne Katzmarek, Steven L. Vanderstaay, Irwin Ramirez Leopando, Christopher Sweet, Howard Wolf
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JoAnne Katzmarek—Thoughts Like Flying Grouse
Steven L. VanderStaay—I'm With You, Huck
Irwin Ramirez Leopando—A Moment of Connections
Christopher Sweet—The Brightening Glance
Howard Wolf—Personal Teaching
Image Into Word: Glimpses Of Mental Images In Writers Writing, Hildy Miller
Image Into Word: Glimpses Of Mental Images In Writers Writing, Hildy Miller
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This essay uses thought samples and interviews to show ways writers use mental imagery in non-creative writing task.
Critical Geography And The Real World In First-Year Writing Classrooms, Matthew I. Feinberg
Critical Geography And The Real World In First-Year Writing Classrooms, Matthew I. Feinberg
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By helping students confront the ideologies that shape their physical and cultural experiences, critical geography in first year writing classrooms may be one means of collapsing the perceived distance between the classroom and the "real world."
Critical Thinking Skills And Emotional-Response Discourse: Merging The Affective And Cognitive In Student-Authored Texts Through Taxonomy Usage, Ed Comber
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This essay discusses a taxonomy designed to help students identify emotive-response discourse in their evolving texts, a process that joins emotion and cognitive to foster critical thinking.
Reviews, W. Keith Duffy, Elizabeth Vander Lei, Marian Maccurdy
Reviews, W. Keith Duffy, Elizabeth Vander Lei, Marian Maccurdy
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Reviews
W. Keith Duffy. Memoirs of Soul: Writing your Spiritual Autobiography. (Nan Phifer, 2002).
Elizabeth Vander Lei. A Communion of Friendship: Literacy, Spiritual Practice, and Women in Recovery. (Beth Daniel, 2003).
Marian MacCurdy. Writing To Save Your Life. (Michele Weldon, 2001).
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The Seven Deadly Virtues, Lynn Z. Bloom
The Seven Deadly Virtues, Lynn Z. Bloom
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The university stifles most creative writers except the most intrepid—even reckless, the good along with the bad—in the process of teaching them to write according to the conventions of the academy in general, and their specific disciplines in particular.