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This is a book about story, the human experience, teaching and
learning, creativity and community. Story is so much more than
decoding text and writing using academic language. It also includes
literature and all forms of the arts; digital forms of story, from
social media to documentation of history; and new forms of
multilayered, multigenre research. Story is the backbone and the
catalyst for personal connections, appropriation of knowledge, and
synergy of knowledge for global citizens. Critical qualitative
research is the methodology by which to document and analyze what
is really going on in the complex, multidirectional interactions.
The authors maintain that story in a broad and newly enlightened
sense may help us to break out from the narrow concepts of
literacy, content knowledge related to measureable standards, and
random facts that are unrelated to dispositions for addressing
human needs. Literacy as a conceptual synthesis of knowledge,
skills, and dispositions has been giving us glimpses of synergistic
ways to approach learning and teaching.
This is a book about story, the human experience, teaching and
learning, creativity and community. Story is so much more than
decoding text and writing using academic language. It also includes
literature and all forms of the arts; digital forms of story, from
social media to documentation of history; and new forms of
multilayered, multigenre research. Story is the backbone and the
catalyst for personal connections, appropriation of knowledge, and
synergy of knowledge for global citizens. Critical qualitative
research is the methodology by which to document and analyze what
is really going on in the complex, multidirectional interactions.
The authors maintain that story in a broad and newly enlightened
sense may help us to break out from the narrow concepts of
literacy, content knowledge related to measureable standards, and
random facts that are unrelated to dispositions for addressing
human needs. Literacy as a conceptual synthesis of knowledge,
skills, and dispositions has been giving us glimpses of synergistic
ways to approach learning and teaching.
In this accomplished book, Mary Kay Rummel spins words into
mysticism and magic. "Not to be ordinary," she was drawn into the
convent where she was forbidden to read fiction because the
Superior didn't like it. In "Patterns of Obedience," she writes
that she was able to leave when "words whispered in that
wind/telling her to go forth and read, to never ask again." Set
free, she read and wrote and traveled, visiting early Irish history
and myth. Throughout her book, bells chime in celebration as her
words become exquisite lyric poems. -Jill Breckenridge, Poet, The
Gravity of Flesh If you delight in plunging into an environment's
sensual and emotional landscape; if you thrill to poetry that
seduces and resonates; if you crave fresh language, intelligence,
revelation and uncompromising risk, then What's Left Is The
Singing-this miraculous confessional, this collection with its
complexity of conflict and resolution, this sound-feast-will
satisfy to the bone. Rummel's work allows us to feel how. . . light
slips/through fingers into every fold of sky. -Ellen Reich, Poet,
The Gynecic Papers When one reads the poems of Mary Kay Rummel, one
expects a certain precision of language, a vigilant detail, a
concentrated lyric whisper that elevates the ordinary life's
ordinary aspirations. On these counts, What's Left Is The Singing
does not disappoint. But these poems are also transformative. Here
we find beauty that resists adoration, caution that armors raised
fists, and belief that survives religion. Here we find metaphors
for life's passion in the scapes of sand and tides and endless
stars that shine through us. And if we don't find distraction from
our ignorance, we do find elegant language touched with music and
some blessings and a few reasons to go on. This is exactly what we
ask from our poetry. -David Oliveira, Poet, A Little Travel Story;
Editor, Mille Grazie Press
Winner of the 2014 Blue Light Book Award Mary Kay Rummel is honored
to be the first Poet Laureate of Ventura County, CA. The Lifeline
Trembles, a co-winner of the 2014 Blue Light Press Award is her
seventh book of poetry. Blue Light Press published her previous
book, What's Left is the Singing, in 2010. Her work has appeared in
numerous regional and national literary journals and anthologies
and has received many awards, including four Pushcart nominations.
Mary Kay has read in many venues in the US and London, and has been
a featured reader at poetry festivals including Ojai and San Luis
Obisbo, CA. She often performs poetry with musicians. A professor
emerita from the University of Minnesota, Duluth, she and her
husband, Conrad, teach part time at California State University,
Channel Islands. They live and play with their grand children in
California and Minnesota. See marykayrummel.com and Poet Laureate
Ventura County (on facebook).
Contrary to what students may think, teachers do have lives outside
the classroom. Rummel and Quintero (U. of Minnesota) extract from
their teacher interview study ways in which teachers' own literacy
experiences and sensibilities carry over into their instruction.
E.g. a special education teacher relates how he transmutes his
reading of travel/adv
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