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Volume 9
Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, Volume 9, Winter 2003-2004
Table of Contents
Essays
Kilian McCurrie. "Spiritual
Identities, Teacher Identities, and the Teaching of Writing."
Through a case study, this article examines the ways teacher
identity and spiritual identity intersect in the teaching of writing. By
showing that a teacher's pedagogy is profoundly informed by a basic
spiritual disposition, the author offers a view of teaching that is often
neglected in studies of teacher identity.
Robert Root.
"The Experimental Art."
Nonfiction is
an experimental art, as contemporary examples make clear,
and writing teachers need to show students both how meaning arises
from writers' experiments with material and also how form arises from
writers' experiments at representing meaning.
Candance Walworth. "Engaged
Buddhism & Women in Black: Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War"
This paper explores principles, practices, and manifestations of engaged Buddhism in the United States. It includes a personal narrative
based on the author's participation in Women in Black (a
silent, symbolic protest against war) and classroom stories based
on the author's experience teaching at a Buddhist-inspired
university.
Laura Milner. "Compos(t)ing
Loss: Transformation in the Telling."
Using
composting as a metaphor, this author examines the transformative potential in writing about and bearing witness to stories
of loss, particularly the death of a parent.
Cristina Vischer Bruns.
"Encounters: Relationship in the Study and Teaching of Literature."
While
trends in the teaching of literature of the last few decades may seem
at odds with one another, the thread that can weave them together is a
recognition of relationship among readers, text, author,and
other readers.
Kia Jane Richmond. "An Unspoken Trust—Violated."
Reflecting on our decisions in the classroom, both when we are
honest with
our students & when we are not, can offer teachers opportunities for
growth and change.
Carolyn L. Piazza and Christine Jecko. "Multiple Forms of Prewriting
in Elementary Writing Literature."
Multisensory
prewriting invitations (creative visualizations, art, music, dreams,
and mediations) affect writing fluency and idea generation in the first
draft writing of elementary students.
W. Keith Duffy. "Community, Spirituality, and the Writing
Classroom."
From a spiritual perspective, this article critiques the concept of community
as defined by scholars of rhetoric and composition; the author suggests
that our experience of community in the writing classroom can be enhanced if we strike a balance between doing and being.
Helen Walker. "Connecting."
Jim
Super
"Fearless"
Pamela Hartman
"English? I'd Rather Read A Book"
Nancy
Myers
"B"
Andrea Sugel
"Walking the Talk, Breathing the Breath"
Traci
L. Merritt
"The
Day Jenny Died"
Susan
A. Schiller
"Touched
by the Spirit in AEPL Topics"
Wilma Romatz
"On the Delicate Art of Teaching"
Reviews
Dale Jacobs.
The Energy to Teach. (Donald H. Graves, 2001).
Stan Scott. Writing with Elbow. (Pat Belanodd, 2002).
Sue Hum. Unfolding Bodymind. (Brent Hocking, Johnna Haskell, Warren
Linds, 2001).
Lita Kurth. The Unconscious. (Athony Easthope, 1999).