Weaving Words
Subtitle: Personal and Professional Transformation through Writing as Research
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781443862806; 9781306907217; 9781443854528
Subjects: Education; Philosophy; Éducation; Philosophie; Literacy; Educational: English language: reading & writing skills; Research methods: general; EDUCATION; Essays; Organizations & Institutions; Reference; Kreatives Schreiben; Lehrerbildung; Textproduktion; Written communication; Study and teaching; Creative writing; Teachers; Training of
Description: Weaving Words raises important questions about the impact of 21st century practices of education upon human creativity and joy in making meaning through writing. It questions how writing is experienced and valued as a process and product of research; as a means for personal and professional learning; and how it is taught and experienced in the classroom and in teacher education. Weaving Words brings together a range of critical perspectives upon writing within global agendas for education and ...
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: pt. I Identity and Voice; title: ch. One The Challenge to Write: The Warp, The Weft and The Space Between / Nicole Hargreaves; title: ch. Two Uisge Beatha: The Ebb and Flow of Four Tides / Janice K. Jones; title: ch. Three Beginnings, Endings and the Journey Between / Cameron Feith; title: ch. Four Finding my Voice / Anne Jasman; title: pt. II Writing the Wor(l)d; title: ch. Five Dinawan Dreaming: Seeing the Darkness or the Stars / Nicole Hobson; title: ch. Six Conflict, Adversity and Reconciliation / Julia Grieve; title: ch. Seven Understanding and Acting through Conversational Spaces / Joseph Occhino; title: ch. Eight Relationships: Darkness, Light and Shades in Between / Natalie Romanet; title: ch. Nine Writers' Journeys: Ways of Being, Knowing and Doing / Robyn Henderson; title: pt. III Writing for Personal and Professional Transformation; title: ch. Ten Constraints, Creativity and Challenges: Educators and Students Writing Together / Melanie Harris.; title: Note continued: ch. Eleven Seeming, Being and Becoming / Natalie Romanet; title: ch. Twelve Seeming, Being and Becoming: Lifelong Learning and Teacher Transformation / Patrick A. Danaher; title: ch. Thirteen Reconceptualising Meaning-Making and Embracing Disruptive Inquiry / Alison L. Black; title: ch. Fourteen The Writer's Journey: Research and Transformation / Roberta E. Harreveld.