Susan A. Schiller

Sustaining the Writing Spirit

Holistic Tools for School and Home

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition addresses sustainability and spirituality as the core of holistic learning, and the teaching activities provide context and processes for writing that encourage activating multiple intelligences. It also has a cross-disciplinary quality and could be used in a number of educational settings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 244g
• ISBN-13: 9781610489577
• ISBN-10: 1610489578
• Artikelnr.: 39717323

Autorenporträt

Susan A. Schiller, Ph.D., is a professor of English and member of the graduate faculty at Central Michigan University, where she teaches composition, American literature, film studies, and English education.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by John P. Miller
Preface
Chapter 1: Background and Important People
Chapter 2: Creativity: A Holistic Route to Writing
Chapter 3: Spirituality: The Core of Holistic Education
Chapter 4: Sustaining Life - Education for Sustainability
Chapter 5: Contemplating Great Things in Soul and Place
Chapter 6: Walking in the Spirit of the Medicine Wheel: Learning to See
What We Normally do not See
Chapter 7: Mapping Art and Beauty to Solve Problems
Chapter 8: Write Your Own Ending
Chapter 9: The Connected Self
Chapter 10: Visioning in Silent Community
Chapter 11: Screenplay Writing
Chapter 12: Info Commercial
Chapter 13: Cave Art: Is it Literature? Is it Writing?
Chapter 14: Finding Your Community's Literature
Chapter 15: Creating a Life's Legacy
Chapter 16: Music and Dance to Inspire the Pen
Chapter 17: The Writer's Scrapbook
Chapter 18: Voice and Identity: The Sound of Respect
Chapter 19: Elements of the Local and Global: Water, Community, and Self
Chapter 20: Writing the Outdoors: Three Days in Nature
Appendix A: Interesting Schools
Appendix B: Rhetorical Modes and Aims
Appendix C: Annotated Bibliography