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Jules Nyquist – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study focused on the qualities of poetry in reducing professional stress, specifically with higher education poetry instructors. The intent of the research was to address the gap in the literature by examining the rich, authentic experiences of poetry instructors who had experienced stress in their professional or writing lives. This study…
Descriptors: Poets, Poetry, Stress Management, Transformative Learning
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Höglund, Heidi; Jusslin, Sofia – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2022
This article adds to the discussion of arts-based approaches to teaching poetry by exploring an example of Poetry on the Wall and its potential for poetry education. Poetry on the Wall intertwines literary and visual elements by materializing and visualizing poetry in a physical environment. The study centers on the poem Reading List created and…
Descriptors: Poets, Poetry, Reading Lists, Teaching Methods
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Maya Borhani – in education, 2021
Amongst a group of poet-scholar friends, all of us students of the American poet Robert Bly, we often speak of our "gratitude to old teachers," the title from one of Bly's (1999) poems. We cherish a meditative awareness of deeply rooted presences holding us up, buoying us as we stride across "Water that once could take no human…
Descriptors: Poets, Poetry, Teacher Student Relationship, Futures (of Society)
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Rangel, Nicole – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2016
This article is concerned with the epidemic of alienation created by colonization and the ideologies that maintain systems of domination. More specifically, it argues that a decolonizing holistic pedagogy can help address the root of our individual and collective alienation to facilitate healing. This position is supported by the findings of an…
Descriptors: Poetry, Holistic Approach, Creativity, Course Descriptions