Writing-Based Teaching Essential Practices and Enduring Questions

Name: Writing-Based Teaching Essential Practices and Enduring Questions
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ISBN: 9781438429069

ISBN-10: 1438429061

ISBN-13: 9781438429069

Edition: 2009

Authors: Teresa Vilardi, Mary Chang, Leon Botstein

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Written by the team at Bard College's Institute for Writing and Thinking, this book is designed to provide practical guidance regarding the challenges and potential of writing-based teaching, and suggestions for how to adapt the practices to particular classroom situations. The contributors share candid, first-hand accounts of what it is like to make writing central to teaching in secondary schools and colleges. As teachers of literature, composition, poetry, mathematics, anthropology, and education, they offer philosophical and theoretical reflections, practical guidance, and personal stories about how to help students become better, more-fluent writers, close readers, and reflective…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 11/10/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction


A Case for Private Freewriting in the Classroom


Focused Freewriting: How to Do Things with Writing Prompts


Process Writing: Reflection and the Arts of Writing and Teaching


Odd Questions, Strange Texts, and Other People: Collaborative Learning, Play, and New Knowledge


Dialectical Notebooks


Radical Revision: Toward Demystifying the Labor of Writing


Learning Culture: Writing in Community


To Write and Think in the Community of School


Postscript Community and Collaboration: The Workshop in Language and Thinking and the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College


List of Contributors


Index