Anecdotes and afterthoughts : literature as teacher's curriculum

Anecdotes and afterthoughts : literature as teacher's curriculum /

This qualitative journey explores how literature informs and challenges my underƠstanding of teaching and learning. Insights, questions, and conflicts are revealed through a series of essays in which my evolving teacher identity is illuminated through literature and imagination. Hopefully reading th...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Podsiadlik, Edward, III (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Rotterdam : Sense, 2014
Series:Bold visions in educational research ; v. 42.
Subjects:
Education > Philosophy.
Curriculum planning.
Literature > Study and teaching.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CHAPTER 1: PROLOGUE
  • CHAPTER 2: CHARACTER AS DOPPELGANGER: The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
  • FINDING THE PATH TO THE THRESHOLD OF TRANSFORMATION
  • PASSING THROUGH THE THRESHOLD OF ILLUMINATION
  • TRANSITIONING FROM PERSONAL EPIPHANY TO CLASSROOM PRACTICE
  • TOPICS FOR REFLECTION
  • CHAPTER 3: CHARACTER AS CONSCIENCE: Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
  • EXPELLING THE SHADOW AND ENTERING THE LIGHT
  • ENCOUNTERING OXYMORON
  • ENDURING CONFLICTS OF CONSCIENCE
  • TOPICS FOR REFLECTION
  • CHAPTER 4: CHARACTER AS NEMESIS: American Idiot (Billie Joe Armstrong)THE ROAD TO THE BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS
  • ONTO THE STREETS OF SHAME
  • WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS
  • TOPICS FOR REFLECTION
  • CHAPTER 5: DISCOURSE ONE
  • CHAPTER 6: DIALOGUE AS MEANING-MAKING: Absolum, Absolum! (William Faulkner) Light in August (William Faulkner) The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
  • VERISIMILITUDE OVER VERIFIABILITY
  • THE DREAM-WORK OF LANGUAGE
  • WHEN A WORD IS WORTH A THOUSAND PICTURES
  • TOPICS FOR REFLECTION
  • CHAPTER 7: DIALOGUE AS IRONY: Seinfeld scripts
  • RELATING ONEâ€?S FICTION AS REALITYDISCOURSE THAT MAKES THE UNREAL REAL
  • WHEN HAVING NOTHING IS THE SAME AS HAVING EVERYTHING
  • TOPICS FOR REFLECTION
  • CHAPTER 8: DIALOGUE AS A VEIL: Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
  • A VEIL OF FORM AND FUNCTION
  • A VEIL OF POWER
  • A VEIL OF ETHICS
  • TOPICS FOR REFLECTION
  • CHAPTER 9: DISCOURSE TWO
  • CHAPTER 10: JOURNEY AS METAPHOR: Odyssey (Homer)
  • JOURNEY OF INSPIRATION
  • JOURNEY OF TRANSFORMATION
  • JOURNEY OF TRANSCENDENCE
  • TOPICS FOR REFLECTION
  • CHAPTER 11: NIGHT AS METAPHOR: Night (Elie Wiesel)
  • UNDISCOVERED SELFMETAPHORICAL CRUCIFIXION
  • DESCENT INTO UNDERWORLD
  • TOPICS FOR REFLECTION
  • CHAPTER 12: DOUBLE-CONSCIOUSNESS AS METAPHOR: The Souls of Black Folk (W.E.B. Du Bois)
  • IDENTITY AND INTEGRITY DISCOVERED
  • SELF-RESPECT REALIZED
  • INNER LIFE ACKNOWLEDGED
  • TOPICS FOR REFLECTION
  • CHAPTER 13: DISCOURSE THREE
  • CHAPTER 14: EPILOGUE
  • PERSONAL HOPES AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
  • REFERENCES

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