Teaching Lives: Contemporary Pedagogies of Life Narratives

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Synopsis
The contemporary ‘boom’ in the publication and consumption of auto/biographical representation has made life narratives a popular and compelling subject for twenty-first century classrooms. The proliferation of forms, media, terminologies, and disciplinary approaches in a range of educational contexts invites discussion of how and why we teach these materials. Drawing on their experiences in disciplines including creative writing, language studies, education, literary studies, linguistics, and psychology, contributors to this volume explore some of the central issues that inspire, enable, and complicate the teaching of life writing subjects and texts, examining the ideologies, issues, methods, and practices that underpin contemporary pedagogies of auto/biography. The collection acknowledges the potential perils that life writing texts and subjects represent for instructors, with a series of short essays by leading auto/biography scholars who reflect on their failed experiences teaching life narratives, and share strategies for negotiating the particular challenges these texts can present. Exploring issues including teaching across genres, analyzing writing about trauma, decolonizing pedagogies, and challenging assumptions (our own, our students’, and our colleagues’), Teaching Lives illuminates what makes the teaching of life narratives different from teaching other kinds of subjects or texts, and why auto/biography has such a critical role to play in contemporary education. This book was originally published as a special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
Copyright:
2018

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
118 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781351623872
Related ISBNs:
9781315113050, 9781351623865, 9781138081055, 9781351623889, 9780367235000
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
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Copyrighted By:
The Autobiography Society
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Laurie McNeill
Edited by:
Kate Douglas

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