Transferable skills and travelling theory in creative writing pedagogy
| Autor: | Gregory Stephens |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Literature and Literary Theory
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050301 education English studies Context (language use) 06 humanities and the arts 060202 literary studies Creativity Professional writing 0602 languages and literature Pedagogy Academic writing Transferable skills analysis Creative writing Sociology 0503 education Discipline media_common |
| Zdroj: | New Writing. 15:65-81 |
| ISSN: | 1943-3107 1479-0726 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14790726.2017.1369128 |
| Popis: | A focus on skills that can be transferred and theory that can travel is shared by Creative Writing Studies (C.W.S) and a larger Writing Studies domain. I situate the Writing Studies reform movement, of which C.W.S is a part, as a response to ‘the permanent crisis of English studies’. The language of creative narrative gives C.W.S its legitimating foundation, I argue. By continuing to speak the language of creativity and resisting the ‘erotics of theory’, the emergent field can retail skills that can travel across and beyond academic disciplines. This essay draws on three years of utilising creative writing pedagogies in Puerto Rico. I sketch the emergence of C.W.S (2009–2017) as one version of the ‘disciplined interdisciplinarity’ which is characteristic of Writing Studies. I describe a self-characterisation assignment I have implemented in several writing studies courses. Within the context of the growing importance of non-academic genres, and recognition that creativity is an asset in all fields... |
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