Who's Expressing in "Expressive Writing"? [microform] / Janine Reed
- Bib ID:
- 5488925
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Reed, Janine
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED292127
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1988
- 13 p.
- Summary:
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In an attempt to understand what expressive writing means to themselves and to their students, teachers should explore and reflect on various questions regarding expressive writing theories and practices. For many, self-expression is the basis of all serious writing and an important stage in any act of learning, so it is essential to uncover the assumptions that different schools of expressive writing pedagogy make about the self. The psychological theories of Abraham Maslow, Sigmund Freud, and William James have contributed to American notions of self in the 20th century, and their theories present three distinct views of self, which resonate in the composition texts of Ken Macrorie and James Miller. Maslow's concept of self is a unified entity central to the person's being, and its writing pedagogy emphasizes listening to the inner voice this self projects. Freud's view of self is structured into parts which interact with each other, and these interactions--particularly between the conscious and unconscious--form the self. Strategies employed by this pedagogy encourage the writer to free the repressed part of the self in order to find what is natural and true. The "multiple" view of self, as described by James, is like a fluctuating and changing stream, and multiple view pedagogies incorporate this perception of self into their teaching strategies, focusing on stream-of-consciousness writing. Teachers should question whether they are teaching self-discovery under the guise of "expressive writing." (MM)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Conference in College Composition and Communication (39th, St. Louis, MO, March 17-19, 1988).
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- Publication date:
- 1988
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