1st Edition

Writer Identity and the Teaching and Learning of Writing

Edited By Teresa Cremin, Terry Locke Copyright 2017
262 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Writer Identity and the Teaching and Learning of Writing is a groundbreaking book which addresses what it really means to identify as a writer in educational contexts and the implications for writing pedagogy. It conceptualises writers’ identities, and draws upon empirical studies to explore their construction, enactment and performance. Focusing largely on teachers’ identities and practices as... Read more

Preface Richard Andrews  Foreword Teresa Cremin and Terry Locke  Section A: Writing, writers and identity  1. Conceptualizing Writing and Identity Ian Eyres  2. Professional writers’ identities: The perceived influence of formal education and early reading Teresa Cremin, Theresa Lillis, Debra Myhill and Ian Eyres  Section B: Writing identity and the development of teachers  3. ‘I’m not a good writer’: Supporting teachers’ writing identities in a university course Denise N. Morgan  4. Addressing resistance: encouraging in-service teachers to think of themselves as writers Chris Street and Kristin K. Stang  5. Developing the teacher-writer in professional development Anne Whitney  Section C: Teachers as writers: Shifting practices and positions in the classroom  6. Being a writer and teaching writing on the ‘rackety bridge’: Through the lens of new teachers Marilyn McKinney  7. Teachers’ identities as writers: Teacher, support staff and pupils’ accounts of the role of emotion in the writing classroom Sally Baker and Teresa Cremin  8. Working toward ‘I’m a writer and a pretty good writer’: An elementary teacher legitimising students’ writerly identities while authenticating her own Rebecca Woodard  9. Developing a whole-school culture of writing Terry Locke  Section D: Students’ writing identities  10. Being in the world’: Students’ writing identities beyond school Josephine Brady  11. Glancing sideways at young writers becoming Diane R. Collier  12. Taught by bitter experience: A timescales analysis of Amalie’s development of writer identity Nikolaj Elf  13. Writing reflexively: Students and teachers shaping texts and identities Mary Ryan  Afterword Teresa Cremin and Terry Locke Index

Biography

Teresa Cremin is Professor of Education (Literacy) at The Open University, UK.

Terry Locke is Professor of Arts and Language Education at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.