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Pedagogy (2022) 22 (2): 325–337.
Published: 01 April 2022
... are explored and adapted to creative writing courses, and examples of potential exercises are given. David Kolb (BU Center 2018) formulates a four-part process model that begins with learner-derived concrete experiences. These are cognitively addressed through reflective observation, leading to abstract...
FIGURES
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Pedagogy (2010) 10 (3): 575–586.
Published: 01 October 2010
..., the “Childhood's End” chapter, which discusses how some aspects of schooling and the media block our inherent creativity, resonated among my students. After sharing their tragicomic experiences of institutional obstacles, they welcomed the course's strange readings and even stranger writing exercises...
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Pedagogy (2013) 13 (1): 59–65.
Published: 01 January 2013
...” history. Such exercises introduce students to some of the creative ways that Dante shaped many historical figures to meet his purposes — personal, political, or spiritual. An extended case study of Dante’s inclusion of southern Italian historical actors is used to illustrate some of the more complex ways...
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Pedagogy (2023) 23 (2): 393–399.
Published: 01 April 2023
... themselves, however, derive from a recognition that even the most light-hearted fare (such as Bill and Ted ) may offer thoughtful insight into the craft of teaching: first, by recognizing that joy, passion, and creativity matter when structuring engaging learning experiences; and second, by clarifying how...
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Pedagogy (2023) 23 (1): 201–208.
Published: 01 January 2023
... in the volume. His appreciation of another of Scholes's textbooks, The Practice of Writing ( 1981 ), coauthored with Nancy Comley, is articulate and concise: What's remarkable to me about the book is the way it invites students to exercise the full range of language with a creative mélange of texts of all...
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Pedagogy (2007) 7 (3): 341–358.
Published: 01 October 2007
...) and the realization that whereas academics
invariably begin and usually end with words and ideas, actors also have to
work with acute bodily expression and are usually at their best when the
rhythms of the body inform their creative processes.
The next exercise is then to animate a piece of Shakespeare...
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Pedagogy (2014) 14 (3): 435–454.
Published: 01 October 2014
... and exercises.
In order to negotiate my desire to connect creative writing to other
disciplines and real-world learning with student expectations, I have started
returning to specific activities associated with the lore-based model of cre-
ative writing and infusing these exercises with ideas from...
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Pedagogy (2007) 7 (2): 223–250.
Published: 01 April 2007
... to aban-
don language entirely. Instead, they used their illustrations to comment on
the visual-verbal interactions that characterize the poem itself.
Creativity in the Classroom
The Pound exercise was just one of a number of creative undertakings that I
assigned during my first sustained bout...
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Pedagogy (2008) 8 (2): 305–325.
Published: 01 April 2008
... Exercises for Fiction Writers . New York: HarperCollins. Berry, R. M. 1994 . “ Theory, Creative Writing, and the Impertinence of History .” In Bishop and Ostrom 1994: 57 - 76. Bishop, Wendy, and Hans Ostrom, eds. 1994 . Colors of a Different Horse: Rethinking Creative Writing Theory and Pedagogy...
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Pedagogy (2004) 4 (2): 263–288.
Published: 01 April 2004
...: National Council of Teachers of English. Vendler, Helen. 2002 . Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology. 2nd ed. New York: St. Martin's. 263 Creative Reading: A First-Semester First-Year Course Howell Chickering There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind...
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Pedagogy (2011) 11 (3): 609–614.
Published: 01 October 2011
...Kevin Craft Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook Wilkinson Joshua Marie , ed. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press , 2010 © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Works Cited Behn Robin . 1992 . The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach . New York...
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Pedagogy (2014) 14 (3): 569–575.
Published: 01 October 2014
...). The authors contributing to The Centrality of Style utilize ideas
from various disciplines, including linguistics, literary studies, creative writ-
Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture
Volume 14, Number 3 doi 10.1215/15314200-2716963...
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Pedagogy (2012) 12 (2): 299–318.
Published: 01 April 2012
... and triumphs in an online forum such as a class blog
or wiki as a means of fostering dialogue between peers, encouraging a “spark-
knocking” interchange and support between classmates.
• Students take part in partner or group exercises to work through problems
and foster creative discovery...
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Pedagogy (2014) 14 (1): 81–106.
Published: 01 January 2014
... the tradi-
tional classroom exercise of writing workshops into much more productive,
improvisation-based “interviews” that mix the best practices of Quintilian
and dance pedagogy with ideas of the emergent from creativity research;
(2) utilizing current composition research on improvisation...
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Pedagogy (2004) 4 (3): 490–492.
Published: 01 October 2004
... is primarily a style guide but not one that promotes a series of rules for writers to follow. Instead, it acknowledges that good style is primar- ily an exercise in creativity. This textbook is for writing teachers who wonder why so often we teach generic introductions, formulaic transitions, variations...
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Pedagogy (2004) 4 (3): 492–497.
Published: 01 October 2004
... is primarily a style guide but not one that promotes a series of rules for writers to follow. Instead, it acknowledges that good style is primar- ily an exercise in creativity. This textbook is for writing teachers who wonder why so often we teach generic introductions, formulaic transitions, variations...
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Pedagogy (2004) 4 (3): 485–489.
Published: 01 October 2004
... techniques that elevate student writing to a new level one with voice, personality, and creativity. Weatherford Wondrous Strange 493 Adios is primarily a style guide but not one that promotes a series of rules for writers to follow. Instead, it acknowledges that good style is primar- ily an exercise...
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Pedagogy (2004) 4 (3): 498–504.
Published: 01 October 2004
... techniques that elevate student writing to a new level one with voice, personality, and creativity. Weatherford Wondrous Strange 493 Adios is primarily a style guide but not one that promotes a series of rules for writers to follow. Instead, it acknowledges that good style is primar- ily an exercise...
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Pedagogy (2011) 11 (1): 199–205.
Published: 01 January 2011
... and composition, his call for attention to playfulness in writing pedagogy is equally relevant to the teaching of creative nonfiction. The question he fails to consider is how playfulness can become an essential part of writing pedagogy without undermining the seriousness of the endeavor. My experience teaching...
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Pedagogy (2011) 11 (1): 206–210.
Published: 01 January 2011
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I’m Not Making This Up
Taking Humor Seriously in the Creative Nonfiction Classroom
Bev Hogue
Last January I was at a big faculty hoop-de-do hobnobbing with colleagues
I had not seen since fall finals when I kept encountering the same annoy-
ing conversation: A colleague asks me what I...
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