Practising life writing: teaching through vulnerability, discomfort, mindfulness, and compassion (Watt, 2016)

Author

Watt, Jennifer

Year

2016

Title

Practising life writing: teaching through vulnerability, discomfort, mindfulness, and compassion

University

University of Manitoba

Discipline (uncoded)

Education

Macrostructure

Topic-Based

Proposed Area of Unconventionality
(Tardy, 2016)

Modality, Rhetorical aims and strategies, Linguistic & textual form

Description and other notes

Incorporates different forms of ‘life writing’ (“theoretical and analytical introductions, letter writing, journal pieces, comics, photos, poetry, creative non-fiction, collages, scenes from a play, and an alphabet book,” from Abstract). These multimodal peices are “worked examples” of “contemplative practices and pedagogical praxis” (Abs).

(Proposed) Degree of separation or connection between atypical or unconventional component(s) and conventional or written component(s)

Connected. Atypical or unconventional components are positioned as inextricable from the written or conventional components.

(Proposed) Type of relationship construed between atypical or unconventional component(s) and conventional or written component(s)

Intermingled. There is a sense of exchange between the atypical or unconventional aspects of the dissertation and its more conventional components.

Notes/Reasoning

None

Discipline 2 (coded)

Education

Discipline Grouping (coded)

ED

Source

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