"Who Am I but a Combinatoria of Things Encountered, Imagined?" Exploring Teachers' Literary Lives
Publication Date
4-21-2020
Document Type
Presentation
Publication Title
American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2020 Annual Meeting
Conference Location
San Francisco, CA
Abstract
This paper considers how English teachers’ literary lives inhere in pedagogy. Building with Kirkland’s (2013) notion of literacy lives, the inquiry draws on interviews with five practicing secondary English teachers, finding that teaching with literary lives reoriented teachers’ lessons as helpfully ambiguous, as well as enlivened the classroom by pointing in a renewed way to wonder and awe. Thinking about the lives of secondary English teachers as literary offers an expanded understanding of the profession, reframing English teaching as creative and communal, compelling, complex and deeply personal work that proves fruitful for teachers, students, and education scholars.
Department
English and Comparative Literature
Recommended Citation
Scott Jarvie. ""Who Am I but a Combinatoria of Things Encountered, Imagined?" Exploring Teachers' Literary Lives" American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2020 Annual Meeting (2020).
Comments
This conference was cancelled.