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Leaping into Uncertainty: Teaching and Learning beyond Logic and Reason
In 1846, Soren Kierkegaard set forth the limits of logical systems and objective truth, neither of which can shed light on the important questions of life. “In logical systems,” the nineteenth century Danish philosophy argues, “nothing may be incorporated that has a relationship to existence, that is not indifferent to existence” (141) because a logical system is purely speculative. Existence is an actuality, a doing. Logical systems cannot account for the necessary leap in life between almost doing something—thinking about doing something (and Kierkegaard’s example is taking the …
Jaepl, Vol. 12, Winter 2006-2007, Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Linda T. Calendrillo
Jaepl, Vol. 12, Winter 2006-2007, Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Linda T. Calendrillo
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Essays
Lynn Z. Bloom and Carla Hill. High Stakes Gambling in the Master Class
High Stakes Gambling in the Master Class explores some of the unarticulated intangibles in a relationship between Master Teacher and Honors Student (who collaborated in writing this essay), calculated to produce a distinguished honors thesis, sometimes out of thin air, gambling, playing the hunches that will allow a gleam in the eye to metamorphose into gold on the page.
Judith Beth Cohen. The Missing Body—Yoga and Higher Education.
Using her own yoga practice as a basis, this author argues for more bodily involvement in learning …
High Stakes Gambling In The Master Class, Lynn Z. Bloom, Carla Hill
High Stakes Gambling In The Master Class, Lynn Z. Bloom, Carla Hill
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High Stakes Gambling in the Master Class explores some of the unarticulated intangibles in a relationship between Master Teacher and Honors Student (who collaborated in writing this essay), calculated to produce a distinguished honors thesis, sometimes out of thin air, gambling, playing the hunches that will allow a gleam in the eye to metamorphose into gold on the page.
Bodies In The Classroom: Integrating Physical Literacy, Carolina Mancuso
Bodies In The Classroom: Integrating Physical Literacy, Carolina Mancuso
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This essay, based on research in Masters level classrooms for education students enrolled in a Graduate Literacy Program, addresses issues of mind-body-spirit teaching and learning..
“Lashing Out At ‘Intellectuals’”: Facing Fear On Both Sides Of The Desk, Stephanie Paterson
“Lashing Out At ‘Intellectuals’”: Facing Fear On Both Sides Of The Desk, Stephanie Paterson
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The author identifies stages in working through a personal attack in a student's composition. Turning toward conflict in a teacher researcher stance is a creative, self-renewing way to conduct the ongoing (often unexplored) intellectual-emotional work of writing teachers.
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
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The Missing Body–Yoga And Higher Education, Judith Beth Cohen
The Missing Body–Yoga And Higher Education, Judith Beth Cohen
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
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.
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).
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.