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Soaring and Tumbling: An Autoethnography from Higher Education
Get PDFWriting is also a way of knowing -a method of discovery and analysis. By writing in different ways, we discover new aspects of our topic and our relationship to it. Form and content are inseparable,[1] (Richardson, 2000. p.923). In Fields of Play, Laurel Richardson explores the inextricable way in which working in academia has affected her writing, how writing has affected her sense of self and how her sense of self has affected her role in academia, and so on and so on. It is a weave that is complicated and imperfect. It makes complete sense. In previous work (Moriarty, 2015) I have argued that a splintered and multi-layered text is suitable for reflecting lived experiences and that this style of writing responds directly to Kant's notions of enlightenment (Kant, 2009). Writing in 1794, Kant suggested that an enlightened reading can take place when the text empowers the reader to evolve past a self-imposed immaturity and have confidence in their own understanding, appreciation and/or criticism without explicit guidance from another (in this case, the author). In this chapter, I present fragments of my lived experiences via a split text that uses poetry, memoir, prose and reflexive writing to explore how my autobiographical stories have impacted on my teaching practice. I hope that the process of uncovering and recovering stories will help me to better understand where some of my strategies for teaching are rooted and how they have evolved. I hope that this might have relevance for my colleagues working in education and people wondering what teaching is and can be like. As with all autoethnographic work, I cannot make any absolute claim on any absolute truth, nor would I wish to. As someone who has been through the education system in the UK, trained to be a teacher in higher education (HE) and is now a principal lecturer at the University of Brighton, I feel I have something personal and professional to say about teaching - who of us hasn't? - and I hope this might trigger reflection, discussion and understanding on the part of the reader and help them to value their own experiences in terms of how they can enrich our teaching and also our individual and shared learning. [1] Richardson, L. (1997) Fields of Play: Constructing an Academic Life. New Jersey: Rutgers University Pres
A Conversation with Jessica B. Harris
No full textA conversation with culinary historian and award-winning author Jessica B. Harris, moderated by Gabrielle Fulton Ponder
Jessica Stremer: Cook Prize 2024, Silver Medal Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Jessica Stremer gives an acceptance speech for Great Carrier Reef (Holiday House)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cook/1013/thumbnail.jp
Jessica Pierce: The Last Walk: Caring for Our Animal Companions
Get PDFBioethicist and author Jessica Pierce will discuss end-of-life care, dying, and euthanasia in the lives of our companion animals.https://thekeep.eiu.edu/humanitiescenter_authenticity1314/1003/thumbnail.jp
Using writing to motivate change: the social responsibility of the writer, the student and the educator
No full textThis paper explores the experiences of the students who opted to take this module as part of their combined English Language/Media/Literature/Linguistics degree in the School of Humanities. Details of the findings from a research project are interspersed with a narrative from one of the guest speaker sessions. The actor, Paul Moriarty came in to talk about the history of political theatre and led a workshop where students pitched an idea for a play with a social theme. The rationale behind presenting the paper in this way is to give readers a three dimensional account of the module and provide an example of a teaching and learning method that was successful in this scenario. Paul’s talk is indented and in italics to distinguish his voice from the voice of the author
Providence College Faculty Author Series 2014-2015: Dr. Jessica Mulligan
No full textIn this installment of the Faculty Authors Series, Dr. Jessica Mulligan of the Health Policy & Management department discusses her book Unmanageable Care: An Ethnography of Health Care Privatization in Puerto Rico - elucidating the history and contemporary state of the Puerto Rican healthcare system
Providence College Faculty Author Series 2014-2015: Dr. Jessica Mulligan
Get PDFIn this installment of the Faculty Authors Series, Dr. Jessica Mulligan of the Health Policy & Management department discusses her book Unmanageable Care: An Ethnography of Health Care Privatization in Puerto Rico - elucidating the history and contemporary state of the Puerto Rican healthcare system
Jessica Hagedorn, 19th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textJessica Hagedorn Born and raised in the Philippines, Jessica Hagedorn is well-known as a performance artist, poet, and playwright. She is the author of the novel Dogeaters (Penguin), which was nominated for the National Book Award. Hagedorn wrote the screenplay for Fresh Kill, an independent first feature film directed and produced by Shu Lea Cheang and has collaborated on film projects, Color Schemes and Those Fluttering Objects of Desire. Her multimedia theater pieces include Teenytown, The Art of War: Nine situations, and Holy Food. Hagedorn is the recipient of a 1994 Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Writers Award, and a 1995 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship. Her new novel, The Gangster of Love has been recently released by Houghton Mifflin
Reading: Jessica Bruder
No full textIn this audiovisual recording from Thursday, March 24, 2022, as part of the 53rd Annual UND Writers Conference: “Communities and the Individual,” Jessica Bruder reads excerpts from Nomadland. Bruder discusses what it means to be an immersion journalist and what brought her to write Nomadland. Bruder also responds to audience questions about the dynamic between author and those who share their stories for a novel like Nomadland, the connection between immersive journalism and the new journalism literary movement, the process of collecting, organizing, and transforming material into a novel, how faithful the film version of Nomadland was to the book, and if Linda ever got to build her Earthship.
Introduced by Dr. Lori Robison, Chair of the Department of English
Leaving the blood in - Using autobiography and narrative to tell the story of research into experiences with academic writing: How to get it write/right?
Get PDFAcademic writing can be difficult to accomplish and disengaging to read (Monchamp 2007), the result is that often when we carry out research, our final readership can be miniscule. While reading and writing for the purposes of research should be informative, insightful, rigorous and challenging, is it also possible to make these processes entertaining or even pleasurable? Can the researcher give some personal insight into their world view and also from that of their interviewees instead of pretending that they play an entirely passive and objective role in the research process? Many qualitative researchers (Grumet 1981; Cortazzi 1993; Charmaz 1995; Ely, Vinz et al. 1997; Erben 1998; Usher 1998; Denzin and Lincoln 1998, 2003; Ellis and Bochner 1998, 2003; Richardson 1998, 2003; Bruner 2004; Perselli 2004; Antoniou and Moriarty 2006; Short, Grant et al. 2007; Sparkes 2007; Caulley 2008; Trahar 2008) have started to push the academic writing borders and explore new ways to write up research. This assignment seeks to provide a rationale for using narrative as a research method to tell the story of my research and to trial these methods on a small-scale project. A professor with an extensive writing portfolio has been interviewed in order to access some of her experiences with academic writing. The author seeks to use a emotionalist approach to the interview process by obtaining the participant’s view on their authentic experiences through open ended and unstructured interviews (Silverman 1993) with the aim of encouraging the interviewee to share their thoughts while discussing the author’s own observations and attitudes towards academic writing. This is in order to provide ideas and insight that might help other academics with their own approaches to the writing process
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