Teaching Lives: Contemporary Pedagogies of Life Narratives
Laurie McNeill · Kate Douglas
Dec 2018 · Routledge
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The contemporary ‘boom’ in the publication and consumption of auto/biographical representation has made life narratives a popular and compelling subject for twenty-first century classrooms. The proliferation of forms, media, terminologies, and disciplinary approaches in a range of educational contexts invites discussion of how and why we teach these materials. Drawing on their experiences in disciplines including creative writing, language studies, education, literary studies, linguistics, and psychology, contributors to this volume explore some of the central issues that inspire, enable, and complicate the teaching of life writing subjects and texts, examining the ideologies, issues, methods, and practices that underpin contemporary pedagogies of auto/biography. The collection acknowledges the potential perils that life writing texts and subjects represent for instructors, with a series of short essays by leading auto/biography scholars who reflect on their failed experiences teaching life narratives, and share strategies for negotiating the particular challenges these texts can present. Exploring issues including teaching across genres, analyzing writing about trauma, decolonizing pedagogies, and challenging assumptions (our own, our students’, and our colleagues’), Teaching Lives illuminates what makes the teaching of life narratives different from teaching other kinds of subjects or texts, and why auto/biography has such a critical role to play in contemporary education. This book was originally published as a special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
About the author
Laurie McNeill is a Senior Instructor of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She is the co-editor (with John Zuern) of Online Lives 2.0, a special issue of Biography; and has published in a/b: AutoBiography Studies, Identity Technologies: Producing Online Selves and Genres in the Internet.
Kate Douglas is an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Creative Arts at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. She is the author of Contesting Childhood: Autobiography, Trauma and Memory (2010) and the co-author of Life Narratives and Youth Culture: Representation, Agency and Participation (with Anna Poletti, 2016).
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