Search Results
that women experience. This resonates with Agnes’ experience, in which mothering became insepara- ble from writing. While writing can stimulate anxiety, it can also be used as a form of healing, so that living with the dissertation is absorbed into the greater challenges in everyday life. Writing as a
philosopher Philip Lewin asks the question this way: ‘‘ ‘Life as narrative’ is this merely a metaphorical way of understanding life or is the metaphor motivated by isomorphisms between the constructive components of narrative and the enabling conditions of human life?’’ (Lewin, 1997). Lewin then goes on to
characters the life theme of LUXURY LIVING, then we can have them live in a huge and lavish house, own yachts, and buy fancy new cars each year. Some goals packaged into such a theme are having large amounts of money, owning desirable objects, getting rich people to like you, establishing a credit rating
SECTION III: INTERVENTION STUDIES AIMED AT IMPROVING MOTIVATION TO WRITE Chapter 9 Mark Twain's Writers' Workshop: A Nature-Nurture Perspective for Motivating Students with Learning Disabilities to Compose Virginia W. Berninger and Suzanne Hidi This chapter is dedicated to the memory of
which comes fromwithout (das Fremde, the foreign). If all goes well in life, these two categories enjoy a mutually enriching relationship: das Eigene is graciously accepted by others, das Fremde is gratefully assimilated by the self. But if all does not go well—and this was Gross’s concern—das Eigene is
boundaries (Tindale & Mumford, 1974). The advent of digital media has allowed for the expression and self-representation of local culture within what was once only recognized by the colonial power as a single ‘Black Australia’. In this sense, digital media represents a new field for living Indigenous
is an adult second language speaker living and working in a second language situation in which all transactions must be carried out in the second language. One must constantly listen, speak, read, and write in the second language and give up dependence on the first language. Beyond time on language
some general points about its educational value for us. Although started as an experiment to offer criminal offenders an alternative to jail, CLTL was motivated by a sustained belief that readers can be moved by stories as they map their own life stories onto the stories they read. Once moved, those
motivated to express herself, first through activities and discussion and finally through her writing. Writing was not a separate subject, but was woven into the curriculum as an integral part of the students' days, although time was set aside daily for writing workshop. Writing moti- vation grew out
fragmented on the screen. In the words of Virilio (2010), ‘‘When you manipulate things, you give up living in them’’ (p. 78). For Virilio, the intersubjective social body has become a Hobbesian Leviathan. Alan Kirby, writing about how the new technologies are reconfiguring our culture (Kirby, 2009), puts the