scholarly journals Creative writing: creating self-confidence.

2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 344-351
Author(s):  
Luna Guzmán Urrego ◽  
Astrid Ramírez Valencia

El desarrollo de la autoconfianza en estudiantes adolescentes puede resultar difícil. Su edad, gustos, creencias, actitudes y percepciones son obstáculos constantes para aprender un nuevo idioma, más aún, si no se sienten cómodos en su salón de clases. Este artículo reflexiona sobre la implementación de la escritura creativa y cómo se pueden mejorar otros aspectos como el pensamiento crítico, el desarrollo de las habilidades lingüísticas, la motivación, entre otros, mientras se enfoca en escribir de manera “divertida” tomando como base información recopilada a través de diferentes investigaciones y la experiencia personal en el ámbito de la enseñanza.

Author(s):  
Catalina Millán Scheiding

Esta propuesta didáctica ejemplifica el uso de la escritura creativa como una forma de acercarse al discurso de género, a través de la generación de un héroe o heroína de fantasía. Se ofrece una actividad en la que se trabaja el conflicto aparente y el conflicto subyacente, donde los roles de género pueden ofrecer respuestas diferentes y redefinir las estructuras narratológicas. El alumnado trabaja sobre su propia creación literaria para definir sus expectativas literarias y los conflictos hegemónicos que se presentan en las historias de fantasía y ficción de su contexto social e ideológico. El contraste de los textos de creación propia con el análisis de textos y ejemplos audiovisuales de fantasía y ciencia ficción de creadoras literarias y de personajes femeninos, presenta una oportunidad para generar un espacio contrastivo y constructivo, a la vez que enlaza con competencias educativas y facilita un acercamiento comparativo a la critica literaria. This didactic proposal exemplifies the use of creative writing as a way to approach gender studies, through the creation of a fantasy hero. The activity offers the possibility of working both the apparent and underlaying conflicts, where gender roles can offer different answers and redefine narratological structures. The students work on their own literary creation to define their literary expectations and the predominant conflicts that appear in fantasy and fiction stories in their social and ideological context. The contrast of their own textual creations with the analyses of textual and audiovisual examples from fantasy and science fiction by female authors and including female characters offers the possibility of generating a contrastive and constructivespace, which also links to educational competences and facilitates a comparatist approach to literary criticism.


Kultura ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 245-261
Author(s):  
Marina Kovačević ◽  
Ana Batrićević

Traditional reaction to crime is inefficient and experts are searching for innovative methods of social rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders. Restorative justice - an approach that respects interests of all the subjects affected by criminal offence, including victims, offenders and community - is becoming increasingly widespread as an addition to classical, formal judicial processes and punishments. Restorative process is efficient due to its powerful transformative mechanisms based upon dialogue, mediation, negotiation, reconciliation, forgiveness, symbolic rituals, reintegrative shaming, community support and control. Restorative elements emerge in various forms, including innovative programmes of work with prisoners, focused on social rehabilitation and reintegration, in order to prevent re-offending. Some of them implement therapeutic effects of art, as a means to help prisoners to: overcome deprivations, express emotions, heal past trauma, (re)establish healthy relationships, enhance empathy, strengthen self-confidence, rebuild positive identity and reintegrate in the community. On the grounds of Boal's "theatre of the oppressed", various forms of socially engaged theatrical genres evolved, including applied theatre, surpassing the borders of classical theatre and getting closer to performance. Theatre within the prison walls being one of them, we took the example of the theatre performance "Her Story", written and performed by prisoners from Correctional Institution for Women in Požarevac, Serbia. Completed through creative writing workshops and played in this penal institution, it is an example of applied theatre based upon art therapy with strong restorative effects. The points of intersection between restorative process and this theatre performance, make it stand out among other forms of applied theatre, providing it with particularly strong transformative effects. Following the case study of "Her Story", the authors of this paper have suggested further application of similar programmes and their promotion within the community, as an effective method of crime suppression through healing powers of art in synergy with restorative elements.


2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-302
Author(s):  
Natalia Hanley ◽  
Elena Marchetti

Arts-based prison programs are often viewed as hobbies or as activities that have little impact on prisoner rehabilitation according to conventional understandings of the term. This is despite growing evidence that arts-based programs can assist with learning retention and can improve self-confidence and ways of coping with emotions. Generally, arts practices have been found to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have grown up or live in urban areas with asserting and strengthening their cultural identity, but we know little about the effects of arts-based prison programs on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoner wellbeing. This article focuses on a creative writing program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners at Junee Correctional Centre, New South Wales. The program, Dreaming Inside, has produced seven volumes of poetry and stories. This article combines and reports findings from two evaluations of the program, one using program feedback forms and the other using semi-structured interviews with prisoners who participated in the program. The themes that emerged from both evaluations affirm the program’s efficacy in improving prisoner self-esteem, confidence and wellbeing, and in reigniting and strengthening cultural engagement.


Author(s):  
Pilar Fraile Amador

Desde mediados del siglo xix hasta nuestros días se ha desarrollado un modo de escribir acerca de la escritura literaria que no es ni el de la Crítica ni el de la Poética. Estos textos, que se producen paralelamente en todas las latitudes de la literatura occidental, desde Rusia hasta Estados Unidos, comparten el objetivo de exponer los métodos y procedimientos que se utilizan en la práctica efectiva de la construcción de ficciones. Es decir, responden a la pregunta por el proceso. Abordaremos en este estudio por qué y cómo surgen estos textos en la segunda parte del siglo xix, sus características fundamentales, y su influencia en el surgimiento de distintas corrientes dentro de la misma materia a lo largo del siglo xx.                                                                                                                                                                      From de middle of the nineteenth century since today we have assisted to the rise of a new kind of texts on fiction that we can distinguish from that of the Criticism or the Poetics. These texts, written all over the western countries, from Russia to the USA, share one common goal: to explain the means and procedures of creative writing. Therefore, they focus on the process of writing. We will review in this essay the reasons for the rising of this kind of texts in the twentieth century. We will also explain their main traits and their influences on the twentieth century different streams within the same discipline.


2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rikke Hellum ◽  
Stine Jensen ◽  
Anette Nielsen

Introduction: If and how various ways of expressing oneself creatively might help heal and resolve mental problems is a question that has been discussed for decades. Creative writing is typically used as an add-on to traditional therapy rather than being an integrated part of the therapy. There is a lack of research into the effect of implementing creative writing as an add-on to therapy for alcohol dependence. The aim of this study was to introduce creative writing to chronic alcohol-dependent clients. Method: A creative writing course was held as a pilot study with six workshops each lasting two hours. Six clients recruited from a harm reduction unit in a Danish alcohol treatment centre and suffering from chronic alcohol-use disorder participated in the workshops. The workshops were led by two professional authors experienced in teaching creative writing. At the end we conducted three interviews: one with the clients, one with the therapist and one with the authors. The interviews were analysed with a focus on the clients’ perspective. Findings: In the analysis, we found that writing can give the clients a lower self-esteem, make them fear failure, and it can be too private. We also found that writing can increase the clients’ self-confidence and unity in the group, give them new nuances of life, stimulate their brain, give zest for life, and improve relations between clients and care providers. Further, we identified a few points of importance to be added to the organization of the workshops. Conclusion: We found that clients suffering from alcohol-use disorder participating in creative writing profited from increased self-confidence, a sense of unity, were better able to appreciate the nuances of life, experienced stimulating brain activity, had more zest for life, and that the intervention improved relations between clients and care providers.


1970 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Mauricio Sánchez Ortiz ◽  
Nurys Esther Brito Guerra

El artículo  de investigación describe la creación del Centro Permanente de Lectura Comprensiva, aula y taller creativo para estudiar el desarrollo de las habilidades comunicativas,  el fortalecimiento de competencias lectoras, escriturales y orales; lo mismo que examinar el impulso de procesos interpretativos, argumentativos y propositivos en estudiantes de primer semestre de la Universidad de la Costa, ubicada en la ciudad de Barranquilla (Colombia). El problema de estudio analiza cómo perfeccionar las competencias lectoras, escriturales, y orales, y contribuir en el análisis para el mejoramiento del aprendizaje de las competencias comunicativas en los estudiantes de educación superior.  Se empleó la metodología del diseño Mixto, donde se aprovechan las potencialidades cualitativas y cuantitativas como un complemento natural, minimizando sus debilidades individuales e incorporando procesos participativos, para que actores educativos reflexionen y asuman sus propios retos lecto-escriturales.  Los resultados muestran que sólo al 32% de los estudiantes encuestados les gusta leer, 64% leían más en la web, 97% han leído un libro completo en toda su vida. Al 68% les gusta escribir; 44%, la ortografía les produce susto; y 66%, les disgusta hablar en público, por miedo e inseguridad personal.  


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daroe Iswatiningsih ◽  
Fida Pangesti ◽  
S. Sudiran

The problem faced by SDN Girimoyo 02 in implementing the school literacy movement was the lack of the number and type of reading material. This problem was overcome through the empowerment of teaching writing skills. Therefore, the aim of this community service was to provide creative writing assistance for SDN Girimoyo 2 teachers so that teachers can contribute reading material to fill the existing gaps. The service method was carried out through workshops and collective and personal mentoring, face-to-face and online. The results of the activity show that the teacher's main problem was exploring ideas or topics to be written about and starting to write. There were doubts and distrust of the teacher when writing, afraid that the idea is not good, not quite right, and not good. Likewise, when starting to write, the first sentence of the writing is felt to be insufficient. For this reason, the handling was carried out on the teacher by strengthening self-confidence, practicing simple writing that starts from experience to develop in writing accompanied by arguments or rationality, and writing assistance. Through this activity, teachers feel very helpful and motivated to optimize the implementation of GLS in schools. Teachers have been able to access various information related to cultural literacy and produce a joint workbook.


Author(s):  
Giovanna Armellin Secchi

César Pavese (1908-50) es un poeta y novelista italiano que ha traducido los escritos de varios americanos al italiano y ha escrito crítica literaria. Sus escritos antifascistas lo llevaron al encarcelamiento, lo que motivó en él la escritura creativa. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, formó parte de la resistencia. Pavese fue encontrado muerto en la habitación de un hotel en Torino.Por lo general, la ficción de Pavese versa sobre los conflictos de la vida contemporánea, entre ellos la búsqueda de una identidad propia. Esta búsqueda se da por ejemplo en La luna e ifalo (1950) considerada su mejor novela. Cesare Pavese( 1908-50), Italian poet and novelist. He also translated the writings of numerous Americans into Italian and wrote Iiterary criticismo His anti-Fascist writings led to his imprisonment, which in tum led to his creative writing. During World War II he was part of the Resistence.Pavese's fiction generally deals with the conflicts of contemporary life, such as the search for self identity-as in The Moon and the Bonfires (1950), regarded as his best novel. He was found life less in his room in a hotel of Torino.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-263
Author(s):  
Gina Larasaty

In this era, writing is one of the skills that should be mastered by the students, because it will be useful in the future. Writing has a purpose of entertaining and of giving the information, for example, in creative writing. This research aimed to know the students’ perception of abilities they acquired after they participated in creative writing at the university level. The method of this research is descriptive analysis. The Participants of this research are coming from students in the fourth semester of English Department in Wiralodra University who took the Poetry subject Then the study resulted in the identification of abilities the students acquired after learning creative writing, the students are more self-confidence, critical reading and gain their vocabulary, grammar and punctuation in writing.


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