Fictocriticism, futurity, and critical imagination: writing stories as activism

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-343
Author(s):  
Serap Erincin
Keyword(s):  
Critical Imagination

scholarly journals ‘I got content with who I was’: Rural teachers’ encounters with new ways of practising literacy

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Toni Gennrich
Keyword(s):  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Limpopo Province ◽  
Literacy Teachers ◽  
Rural Teachers ◽  
Bachelor Of Education ◽  
Teacher Students ◽  
The University ◽  
Personal Literacy ◽  
Critical Imagination

In a context where Foundation Phase literacy teachers’ personal literacy often involves operational and technicist practices rather than creative, this paper argues that it is by exposing teachers to experiences of working with different genres of text for an extended time, in different fields, that teachers are able to imagine the possibilities these genres afford. Using a Bourdieusian framework of habitus, field, capital and doxa and applying imagination to the theorisation of these concepts, I examine the effect on a group of rural teachers from Limpopo province of being removed from their classrooms, and being given the opportunity to complete a 4-year Bachelor of Education degree at the University of the Witwatersrand. This case study used reflective journals and focus groups to trace shifts in the ways these teacher-students enacted literacy and thought about teaching literacy. Findings from this study suggest that teachers of literacy can change deeply entrenched ways of thinking about and valuing literacy by reflecting on the discontinuities between old and new ways of practice and, through anticipatory reflection, to imagine possibilities of teaching and enacting literacy differently. This requires critical imagination, awareness and agency. This paper discusses, in particular, Elela’s experience with poetry and Kganya’s experience with a drama script, assessing the effect this had on their personal literacy practices and how they imagine teaching literacy in the future.

The Critical Imagination

2014 ◽  
Vol 65 (260) ◽  
pp. 570-572
Author(s):  
George Hull
Keyword(s):  
Critical Imagination

The Death of Data in Neoliberal Times

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 721-724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman K. Denzin
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
Critical Imagination

We need new ways of making the everyday world visible through disruptive empirical methodologies that privilege social justice and utopian acts of critical imagination.

Rocking the Boat: Jonah and the New Historicism

1997 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 364-402
Author(s):  
Yvonne Sherwood
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
The Body ◽  
New Historicism ◽  
Defining Moment ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Critical Imagination ◽  
Lines Of Force

AbstractThis reading is about critical versions of texts and how they survive (or over-live) in the critical imagination. It looks at three readings of the book of Jonah, from 1550, 1781-2 and 1860, the first freezing the moment where Jonah is catapulted from the boat as the narrative's single defining moment, the second abstracting the image of Jonah looking out over Nineveh and snarling over God's change of mind, and the third zooming in on the body of the whale, its species, jawsize and body weight. In each case it is clear that the book of Jonah (and thus the Bible) is not hermetically sealed off from culture nor merely read against a cultural background, but that the "Bible" and "Society," text and context, are held in complex and reciprocal lines of force. The story of Jonah, the whale, God and the Ninevites is a stage where the transformed fears and anxieties of cultures are acted out, and gives back to society a transformed, idealised, picture of itself.

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