Writing love and agency : narrative revisions in the academic and life texts of high school youth
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation presents the self-narratives and academic texts of four high school students who engage in the work of revision. It is also my attempt to translate between theory and practice in my high school classroom. Over the course of a literacy curriculum that builds around Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, students write their way through a series of narratives and essays that they develop around themes of narrative truth, family relationships, defeat and agency, and personal and collective struggle. By focusing first on the topic of love, students attempt to identify their surface stories and the more internal stories that drive them, and consider how well these stories are serving them. In some cases, students are able to shift their interpretation and framing of life experience to a more agentic tone and outlook. As they consider revisions to their self-narratives, they reconsider their readings of Morrison's novel and its characters, as their academic writings reveal. The curriculum develops within the classroom social context over the two years that the students and I work together, as they increasingly grow to share their views and writing with one another. Implicit in students' ways of thinking about life challenge is their relationship with education and school. Students' evolving views of reading, writing and education that surface in their writings, interviews and class discussions, emerge throughout the dissertation.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2012 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | LaMay, Bronwen Clare |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Education. |
| Primary advisor | Lunsford, Andrea A, 1942- |
| Primary advisor | McDermott, Ray (Raymond Patrick), 1946- |
| Thesis advisor | Lunsford, Andrea A, 1942- |
| Thesis advisor | McDermott, Ray (Raymond Patrick), 1946- |
| Thesis advisor | Lotan, Rachel A |
| Thesis advisor | Nasir, Na'ilah Suad |
| Advisor | Lotan, Rachel A |
| Advisor | Nasir, Na'ilah Suad |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Bronwen LaMay. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the School of Education. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2012. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2012 by Bronwen Clare LaMay
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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