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Writing Toward Understanding, Dianne Gregory
Writing Toward Understanding, Dianne Gregory
Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection
The author -- a writer and student of creativity -- sets out to record her creative process while writing a novel and then match it to prevailing creativity theory. However, in her process notes she finds none of the typical concerns of cognitive psychology, such as problem-finding, risk-taking, breaking set, and other heuristics. The three theorists -- Amabile, Perkins, and Howard -- who seemed impressive to the author as a student, turn irrelevant when she reads them through the eyes of a writer-storyteller. From the fatty flesh of her notes and unformed recollections, elements of the author’s own personal process …
Literacy As A Source For Critical Consciousness Thought, Language, And Concept Of Self, Victoria Byerly
Literacy As A Source For Critical Consciousness Thought, Language, And Concept Of Self, Victoria Byerly
Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection
This thesis is a study of the complex interrelation between thought and language and the relevance of social and cultural influences on a mature critical concept of self. This study represents an effort to propose a curriculum for literacy that facilitates the restructuring of consciousness in the adult learner. The intent is to promote transformation of student apperception from that of internalized reactive powerlessness to proactive self-empowerment. It is an emancipatory theory of literacy with a corresponding transformative pedagogy that promotes the ability to name and define the relationship of self and environment, and one that engages learners to transform …