Writing to Survive - How Teachers and Teens Negotiate the Effects of Abuse, Violence, and Disaster (Hardcover, New)

This ethnographic research investigates how adolescents use writing. Deborah M. Alvarez uncovers the hidden abuses and violence that adolescents bore with each school day. In two different research sites, the author follows adolescents through their academic and personal lives to discover how they use writing only to uncover the impact the public and private violence had upon their ability to learn. The author details the writing classroom practices; assignments; and how adolescents adapt, reconstruct and appropriate the lessons of the classroom for their purpose and needs. For the adolescents in the book, writing was a way to address the stresses that plagued the adolescents each day, especially when they had no other way to communicate or tell about their lived experiences. Alvarez outlines an alternative Expressivist plan for teaching writing to adolescents. This writing program builds upon the evidence from the case studies, brain theory and research on traumatic stresses to offer teachers and thereby their students a more effective way to teach writing with greater impact for those who need it most.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Education
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2011
First published:	February 2011
Authors:	Deborah M. Alvarez
Dimensions:	240 x 162 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	262
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-60709-783-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Educational psychology Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > General Promotions
LSN:	1-60709-783-4
Barcode:	9781607097839

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