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Angela Muir – Composition Forum, 2024
In the pursuit of fostering vibrant and inclusive learning environments, this article explores how the practice of community-building can be a contemplative practice. Drawing upon personal experiences and pedagogical insights, Muir navigates the rewards of cultivating authentic connections among students while dismantling hierarchies within the…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Processes, Collaborative Writing, Communities of Practice
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Johnson, Latrise P. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2018
Through the teaching of writing, classrooms are potential sites to address personal power, welcome student ideas, and cultivate a culture of writing for many purposes. Writing that is personal invites students to explore and compose what is possible and to make connections between a subject and the self. Such writing requires a reimagining of…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Adolescents, Writing (Composition), Self Expression
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Joshua Hamilton – English Journal, 2019
This article describes a teacher's willingness to perform an autobiographical spoken word poem in his classroom, which provided an important model for students as they composed and shared their own slam-style poems.
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Poetry, Models, Self Expression
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Kilburn, Jayme – Research in Drama Education, 2019
As a first-year writing instructor, I generally expect a few mainstays: a handful of bored students, recurring absences, and plenty of covert texting. In order to disrupt the usual lackluster engagement associated with required classes, I approach my writing seminar like a theatre class. By incorporating common performance practices such as the…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Feminism
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Vengadasalam, Sarbani Sen – Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 2020
This paper describes the principles of transformative pedagogy that lead to the development of distinct student voices in academic writing classes. Whether the course is taught at the undergraduate level through research, expository, and argumentative writing assignments or at the graduate level through literature review essays, research articles,…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Writing Instruction, Writing Across the Curriculum, Academic Language
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Eli Goldblatt – College Composition and Communication, 2017
Expressivism lost status and respect in composition and rhetoric during the 1990s, despite attempts by some to defend its insights. Few in the field call themselves expressivists today, and yet we can recognize traces of this movement in work by contemporary scholars and theorists. Indeed, the field itself still retains commitments that echo that…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Rhetoric, Writing Research, Writing Instruction
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DeBacher, Sarah; Harris-Moore, Deborah – Composition Forum, 2016
Sarah DeBacher and Deborah Harris-Moore offer their experiences with teaching in the aftermath of traumatic situations. DeBacher, who taught at the University of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and Harris-Moore, who taught at UC Santa Barbara following a mass shooting, explore the difficulty of teaching writing in the wake of…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Trauma, Weather, Violence
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Ryan, Mary – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2014
Reflection can form the basis for powerful dialogue between the arts and literacy as we seek interpretive and expressive fluency across modes. Through deep, cumulative reflection we make aspects of our world and experiences more perceivable, and open them up for artistic expression and aesthetic inquiry. Such reflections are also the catalysts for…
Descriptors: Reflection, Inquiry, Visual Arts, Literacy
National Education Association, 2019
Poverty and trauma impact student brain development, health, and behavior. The stressors of poverty (lack of nutritious food, unstable housing, etc.) and traumatic events can put students in a "fight" or "flight" mode. Operating from such places prevents students from accessing higher-order thinking and negatively impacts…
Descriptors: Poverty, Trauma, Educational Strategies, Teacher Student Relationship
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Bean, Emanuelee; Brennan, Kate Rybka – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2014
The youth slam poetry movement is growing in Houston. Writers in the Schools (WITS) is helping youth explore their truths through performance poetry and the renowned Meta-Four Houston program. Spoken word, slam competitions, and performance poetry bring people together to share stories and listen to our tomorrows. Performance poetry encourages…
Descriptors: Youth, Poetry, Oral Language, Performance
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Carlo, Rosanne – Composition Forum, 2016
In the field of rhetoric and composition, literacy narratives are sometimes framed through the idea of "inventing the university"; this, unfortunately, creates a trope of literacy as success. I argue that the success trope limits student expression of "outlaw" emotions in literacy narratives--like loss, pain, and anxiety--and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response
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Moon, Brian – English in Australia, 2012
Modern secondary courses in English differ from classical tradition in their tendency to avoid direct instruction in the content and style of writing. Such avoidance is partly a function of anxieties about the role of English in students' personal development and a fear of limiting their self expression. Neither of the dominant writing pedagogies…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Self Expression, Writing Instruction, Recall (Psychology)
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Boiarsky, Carolyn – Educational Leadership, 1981
To become better writers, children need opportunities to write and freedom to let their ideas flow. Two schools in Atlanta (Georgia) have followed this principle with successful results. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Innovation, Self Expression, Writing Instruction
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Reynolds, Marilyn – English Journal, 1996
Explains how a teacher asks her students to write on topics close to their hearts and how she, in turn, writes her own heartfelt essays and shares them with her students. Contains one such essay, in which the author describes how she narrowly escaped serious injury when, as a teenager, she jumped on a moving vehicle. (TB)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Personal Narratives, Secondary Education, Self Expression
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Owen, Trevor – English Journal, 1995
Describes the experience of a teacher and his students on Writers in Electronic Residence (WIER), a computer network available to schools in which students post their creative writings which are then discussed by professional writers, students, and teachers. Makes a case for using computer technology in language arts classes. Discusses some of the…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Creative Writing, Online Systems, Poetry
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