scholarly journals Scholarly Personal Narrative: Storied Forms as Teaching, Learning, and Writing

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-198
Author(s):  
Marcea Ingersoll
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Scholarly Personal Narrative ◽  
Critical Method ◽  
Teaching Learning

By embedding narrative theory within the practice of storied forms, there can be pedagogical movement from difficulty to insight. This piece explores scholarly personal narrative as a creative and critical method for attaining academic understanding. The ideas of three narrative scholars (Nash, Fowler, and Luce-Kapler) surface within two writing forms—a letter and a poem. The author playfully reports on the powerful processes that are engaged when shared creative story forms become part of teaching, learning, and writing.

Aesthetic Expression

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-61
Author(s):  
Betty Rambur
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Patient Death ◽  
Scholarly Personal Narrative ◽  
Aesthetic Expression

A nursing professor and dean recounts her first patient death in this scholarly personal narrative.

scholarly journals Fighting Gendered Battles: On Being a Woman in a Contemporary Gaming Community

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-142
Author(s):  
Saralyn McKinnon-Crowley
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
Scholarly Personal Narrative ◽  
The Social ◽  
Male Dominated

This scholarly personal narrative (Nash 2004) draws on the author’s experiences as a woman in a male-dominated gaming community. In such a space, being a woman who plays the game problematizes notions of gender for both the author and for her most-often male opponents. When playing the game, she operates in a liminal space between expert and outsider because of her gender identity. At the same time, her gender troubles her men opponents. She discusses her struggles for acceptance in this community and how her notions and enactment of gender have changed as a result of her experiences. In the article, the author explains the social norms of the game and the demographic breakdown of the game’s players; to accomplish this, the author shares stories from her time as a player.

Teaching and Learning with Thoreau: Honoring Critique, Experimentation, Wholeness, and the Places Where We Live

2002 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gruenewald
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
High School Teacher ◽  
Colleges Of Education ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
The Social ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Teaching Learning

In this essay, David Gruenewald weaves a narrative of his education and teaching together with Henry David Thoreau's comments on education, and with stories of Thoreau's own teaching and learning. Gruenewald's personal narrative begins with the discovery of Thoreau as a rare voice of social critique in the education of a typical middle-class adolescent, and then moves to a personal critique of the social context of schooling and the conventions of schooling from the author's perspective as a student and a high school teacher. The second part of the essay explores three teaching themes found both in Thoreau's writing and in biographical treatments of him: experimentation, wholeness, and the primacy of place. Gruenewald discusses each of these themes in terms of Thoreau's approach to teaching, learning, and living. Arguing against the culture of prescription that dominates teaching and learning in schools and colleges of education, he concludes not with more prescription, but with the Thoreauvian plea to reexamine everything we have been told.

scholarly journals Narrative Insights: A Creative Space for Learning

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-221
Author(s):  
Marcea Ingersoll
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Potential Conflict ◽  
Scholarly Personal Narrative ◽  
Creative Space ◽  
Insight Into

Through this scholarly personal narrative, the author offers insight into how student creativity can be engaged or neglected. While the narrative highlights the potential conflict between students’ lives and their schools, the hope lies in the illuminative power of stories of difficulty. By interweaving narrative and theory, the author sheds light on the conditions that inhibit creativity, and emphasizes the capacity of teachers to locate creative, compassionate spaces for themselves and their students.

Examining my place in social work history: a scholarly personal narrative

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan E. Gonyer
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Work History ◽  
Scholarly Personal Narrative ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Work History

The social work profession began in the early 1900s and has changed and evolved in many ways since then. The author raises the question: ‘Am I who the founding mothers of social work imagined when they began their work?’ Looking at the values of the profession with a focus on social justice and language, the author explores how she is working towards social justice and how it fits into the historical perspective of the profession.

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