Narration As Knowledge Tales of the Teaching Life

Name: Narration As Knowledge Tales of the Teaching Life
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ISBN: 9780867094367

ISBN-10: 0867094362

ISBN-13: 9780867094367

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Authors: Joseph Trimmer

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This is the book I read out under the trees in my backyard, the one I kept on my bedside table, the one I didn't mark up with a pen (until I remembered I was supposed to be reviewing it). - College English Here for the first time is a work in which eloquence is the vehicle for conveying theory and practice. This collection does not follow the sanctioned procedures of educational research. Nor is it written in the privileged forms of academic discourse. Instead, it plays with all the devices of storytelling--scene, dialogue, point of view--exploring a new way to report crucial information on the teaching and learning of English. In this beautifully written gathering, the narrators, many…

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List price: $52.80
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 11/20/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 205
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.97" long x 0.42" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



I Stories About Reading Stories We Tell Ourselves



Up River, Down River, and Across the Aegean



Pilgrimage at the Penitentiary



Finding the Selves We Set Aside



Shoot Out at the I'm OK, You're OK Corral, Villanueva Telling Stories About Stories



Stories About Writing Beginnings



Reading and Writing About Death, Disease, and Dysfunction



Telling Stories and Writing Truths



Promise



No Secrets



Subverting the Academic Masterplot



Stories About Culture You Can't Tame a Polecat by Caging It



Film Clips and the Master's Tools



Satire, Sartre, Cookies, and the Classroom



The Teflon Lesson and Why It Didn't Stick



Testing the Limits of Tolerance in the Democratic Classroom



Facing the Other: The Emergence of Ethics and Selfhood in a Cross-Cultural Writing Classroom



What We Don't Like, Don't Admit, Don't Understand, Can't Hurt Us Or Can It?--On Writing, Teaching, Living