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Goldberg’s WRITING DOWN THE BONES: FREEING THE WRITER WITHIN

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“In college I was in love with literature. I mean wild about it. I typed poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins over and over again so I could memorize them. I read John Milton, Shelley, Keats aloud and then swooned on my narrow bed in the dormitory. In college in the late sixties, I read almost […]

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Robert Crossley’s “Education and Fantasy”

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“As I begin writing I think of a stained-glass window submitted as a student project for a course in fantasy literature.  […] I think of Tolkien’s fantasy world, fabricated out of shattered myths which we, as ‘postmoderns,’ ought no longer to believe in. Like the window, The Lord of the Rings is essentially a re-creation, […]

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Verlyn Flieger’s SPLINTERED LIGHT: LOGOS AND LANGUAGE IN TOLKIEN’S WORLD

Posted by Dave Rick

“Tolkien’s great essay ‘On Fairy-stories’ is the best and deepest consideration I have encountered of the nature, origin, and value of myth and fantasy, as well as the most cogent commentary on his own work. Here, among the many nuggets of pure gold, is the clearest statement of his working theory of fantasy. ‘For creative […]

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Peter Elbow’s WRITING WITH POWER: TECHNIQUES FOR MASTERING THE WRITING PROCESS

Posted by Dave Rick

“So maybe that’s where the power in writing comes from that I want to call magic: context.” –Peter Elbow Peter Elbow’s 1981 book, Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process, has long presented me a conundrum. On the one hand, everything Elbow says in the book feels right–I want to cheer for it, […]

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Vygotsky’s THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE

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“The relation of thought to word is not a thing but a process, a continual movement back and forth from thought to word and from word to thought. In that process, the relation of thought to word undergoes changes that themselves may be regarded as development in the functional sense. Thought is not merely expressed […]

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Rose’s LIVES ON THE BOUNDARY: A MOVING ACCOUNT OF THE STRUGGLES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF AMERICA’S EDUCATIONALLY UNDERPREPARED

Posted by Dave Rick

“American meritocracy is validated and sustained by the deep-rooted belief in equal opportunity. But can we really say that kinds like those I taught have equal access to America’s educational resources? Consider not only the economic and political barriers they face, but the fact, too, that judgments about their ability are made at a very […]

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Huizinga’s HOMO LUDENS: A STUDY OF THE PLAY-ELEMENT IN CULTURE

Posted by Dave Rick

“The incidence of play is not associated with any particular stage of civilization or view of the universe. Any thinking person can see at a glance that play is a thing on its own, even if his language possesses no general concept to express it. Play cannot be denied. You can deny, if you like, […]

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Hooks’ TEACHING TO TRANSGRESS: EDUCATION AS THE PRACTICE OF FREEDOM

Posted by Dave Rick

“It is feminist thinking that empowers me to engage in a constructive critique of Freire’s work (which I needed so that as a young reader of his work I did not passively absorb the worldview presented) and yet there are many other standpoints from which I approach his work that enable me to experience its […]

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General Notes: Freud’s WOLFMAN, Gardner’s FRAMING MINDS, and Covino’s THE ART OF WONDERING

Posted by Dave Rick

This is a sort of amalgam post in which I discuss three texts that will not be directly considered for my comps questions. Rather, in the cases of Covino and Gardner, they will serve as supportive or framing pieces for other texts. In the case of Freud, I have determined that he will not be […]

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Gardner’s CREATING MINDS: AN ANATOMY OF CREATIVITY AS SEEN THROUGH THE LIVES OF FREUD, EINSTEIN, PICASSO, STRAVINSKY, ELIOT, GRAHAM, AND GANDHI

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“The creative individual is a person who regularly solves problems, fashions products, or defines new questions in a domain in a way that is initially considered novel but that ultimately becomes accepted in a particular cultural setting.” — Howard E. Gardner Key Terms: Intrinsic Motivation, Fruitful Asynchrony, Affective/Cognitive Support Howard E. Gardner’s Creating Minds: An […]

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