Anecdotes and Afterthoughts: Literature as a Teacher's Curriculum

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This qualitative journey explores how literature informs and challenges my understanding 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 this portrayal of literature, which has been a source of educational insight and imagination for me, will be of use to other educators as they reflect on their own teaching.
The primary works of literature used to facilitate this journey are: The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Les Miserables (1862), and American Idiot (2004); Light in August (1932), Seinfeld scripts (1991-98), and Frankenstein (1818); and The Odyssey, Night (1960), and The Souls of Black Folk (1903). By delving beneath my exterior ‘teacher mask,’ a collage of images, anecdotes, reflections, aspirations, and fears is exposed.
As a resource for pre-service teachers or a reflective exercise for veteran teachers, this study aims to benefit educators by providing a new pathway through which to better understand their intrinsic identities as teachers. Each chapter concludes with “Recommendations for Reflection” that readers are encouraged to consider individually and/or collectively.
The spirit of daydreams allows me to integrate literature, autobiography, and imagination through inventive and inspired discourses with literary figures, using authentic quotations as content for original commentaries that further examine the intrinsic nature of teacher identity. My hope is that this journey will inspire other educators to further reflect on realities and possibilities of what it means to be a teacher.

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Prologue
Pages: 1–6
Character As Doppelganger
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
Pages: 7–25
Character As Conscience
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Pages: 27–46
Character As Nemesis
American Idiot (Billie Joe Armstrong)
Pages: 47–62
Discourse One
Pages: 63–71
Dialogue As Irony
Seinfeld scripts
Pages: 97–111
Dialogue As A Veil
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Pages: 113–129
Discourse Two
Pages: 131–139
Journey As Metaphor
Odyssey (Homer)
Pages: 141–161
Night As Metaphor
Night (Elie Wiesel)
Pages: 163–183
Double-Consciousness As Metaphor
The Souls of Black Folk (W.E.B. Du Bois)
Pages: 185–204
Discourse Three
Pages: 205–213
Epilogue
Pages: 215–218
References
Pages: 219–222
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