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Direct linkShann, Steve – English in Australia, 2019
What role might storytelling play both as a component of the English curriculum and as a way of re-envisioning what we do as English teachers? The following story asks questions about storytelling in the English classroom, its fit with current theory and practice, and its role in a contemporary world. Live Bodies is a fiction. None of the…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Fiction, English Curriculum, English Teachers
Shann, Steve – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2014
English teachers encourage the view that the imagination helps us understand, and engage with, the world. However, we don't often write fiction as a means of knowing and a way of telling. This short story emerged out of my experience as an English teacher, trying to make sense of the nature of my subject, and out of my reading of others' attempts…
Descriptors: Imagination, Fiction, English Teachers, Literary Genres
Shann, Steve; Edwards, CeCe; Pittard, Libby; Germantse, Hannah – English in Australia, 2013
Maxine Greene urges us to look beyond the perspective of the system with its spotlight on data, outcomes and performance goals, and to focus instead on what she calls "the intentionality and concreteness of everyday life". "One must see", she writes, "from the point of view of the participant in the midst of what is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Teachers, Fiction, Writing (Composition)
Vanover, Charles – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2014
This ethnodrama communicates the lived experience of an outstanding teacher of English who worked in the Chicago Public Schools for more than 20 years. Excerpts from three semi-structured interviews have been constructed into a one-woman show that uses music, dance, and the art of theater to convey the spiritual beauty of ambitious, urban teaching…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Public School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Urban Teaching
Burke, Jim, Comp. – 1999
Born of a high school English teacher's frustration with his students' attitudes about books, this book presents, verbatim, nearly 50 letters sent to the teacher in response to his letter to the editor of the "San Francisco Chronicle" asking readers to write about their experiences with books and the role that books and literature played in their…
Descriptors: Adults, Books, Elementary Secondary Education, English Teachers
Koch, Ann – Winds of Change, 1997
High school English teacher from Hannahville Indian School (Wilson, Michigan) describes an approach to teaching writing that gives students ownership of the writing process, encourages creativity and self-expression, increases self-esteem, and fosters emotional and spiritual healing. Examples of students' poetry reflect issues facing American…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Catharsis, Creative Writing, Creativity
