Relocating the Personal: A Critical Writing Pedagogy

by Barbara Kamler

Overview

A rich array of interesting ways to teach personal writing critically and in settings where it has typically been excluded.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780791491355
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	09/18/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	422 KB

About the Author

Barbara Kamler is Associate Professor of Education at Deakin University in Burwood, Australia. She is the editor of Constructing Gender and Difference: Critical Research Perspectives on Early Childhood.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	ix
	Preface	xiii
Chapter 1	Space, Time, Embodied Texts	1
Chapter 2	Relocating Voice and Transformation	35
Chapter 3	Stories of Ageing	55
Chapter 4	Who Said Argumentative Writing Isn't Personal?	79
Chapter 5	Critical Spaces for Learning to Teach Writing	109
Chapter 6	Language, Gender, Writing	137
Chapter 7	The Politics of the Personal: New Metaphors, New Practices	171
	Bibliography	187
	Index	203

Editorial Reviews

Kamler (education, Deakin U., Burwood, Australia) describes an array of practical approaches to teaching the personal in writing and other disciplines. Teaching writing in schools and communities, she argues, should be a political project, and the personal should be more than simply voice. Her four case studies demonstrate applications in secondary, undergraduate, graduate, and adult and community settings. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

With Relocating the Personal, Barbara Kamler offers readers two gifts. The first is a rich collection of critical writings, by so many different kinds of students, writing from so many different sites for education. Kamler’s second gift is a text on critical pedagogy in which she is herself explicit and self-critical, instructive and generous about the teaching of writing.” — Michelle Fine, from the Foreword

“…most engaging for the ways it maintains a steady focus on personal writing within a post-structuralist framework. In an age when personal writing seems open to criticisms leveled by post-structuralism, Kamler resolutely defines ways that keep the personal without sacrificing, in fact by embracing, post-structuralist theories of language. She does so in a way that presents personal writing as a vital aspect of social critique and change.” — Kirk Branch, University of Kansas

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