Teaching Lives: Contemporary Pedagogies of Life Narratives

ISBN-13: 9780367235000 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 132 str.

Laurie McNeill; Kate Douglas

Opis

Contributors to Teaching Lives consider what makes the teaching of life narratives different from teaching other kinds of subjects, and why it has such a critical role to play in contemporary education. It was originally published as a special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction – Heavy Lifting: The Pedagogical Work of Life Narratives  1. Black Women and the Biographical Method: Undergraduate Research and Life Writing  2. Autobiographical Narratives: Pedagogical Practice as a Lifeline for Hospitalized Children  3. Multimodal Autobiographies as Sites of Identity Construction in Second-Language Teacher Education  4. Autobiography in the Language Classroom  5. Embracing the Surface: How to Read a Life Narrative  6. Coming to Life: Teaching Undergraduates to Write Autobiography  7. The Pedagogical Potential of Memoir in an Interdisciplinary Context  Forum: Teaching Fails  8. Risky Business: Teaching "Fails" in the Auto/Biography Classroom: An Introduction  9. Teaching Life Writing: Four Ways to Fail  10. Graphic Life Narratives and Teaching the Art of Failure  11. Learning with The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book in a Cultural Studies Course  12. "I Won’t Remember—for You": What Life-Writing Criticism and Theory Could Bring to the Autobiographical Writing Classroom  13. Teaching Fail: The Life-Writing Scholar’s Cameo Appearance