| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 151 pages) : illustrations |
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SUNY series, feminist theory in education |
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SUNY series, feminist theory in education.
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| Contents |
Loss, love, and the work of learning : lessons from the teaching life of Anne Sexton -- Teacher of "weird abundance" : a portrait of the pedagogical tactics of Anne Sexton -- Something worth learning : a reading of the student-teacher relationship between Anne Sexton and John Holmes -- "-- [I] bend down my strange face to yours, and forgive you" : a study of Anne Sexton's pedagogy of reparation -- Picturing the Racial innocence of Anne Sexton's pedagogy |
| Summary |
Annotation A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who confessed the unrelenting anguish of addiction and depression, Anne Sexton (1928-1974) was also a dedicated teacher. In this book, Paula M. Salvio opens up Sexton's classroom, uncovering a teacher who willfully demonstrated that the personal could also be plural. Salvio looks at how Sexton framed and used the personal in teaching and learning, and considers the extent to which our histories--both personal and social--exert their influence on teaching. In doing so, she situates the teaching life of Anne Sexton at the center of what feminist philosophers consider to be key problems and questions in feminist pedagogy: navigating the appropriate distance between teacher and student, the relationship between writer and poetic subject, and the relationship between emotional life and knowledge. Examining Sexton's pedagogy, with its "weird abundance" of tactics and strategies, Salvio argues that Sexton's use of the autobiographical "I" is as much a literary identity as a literal identity, one that can speak with great force to educators who recognize its vital role in the humanities classroom |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-139) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974.
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| SUBJECT |
Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974 fast |
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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Women educators -- United States -- Biography
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Education -- Philosophy.
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Education -- Social aspects
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Education -- Philosophy
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Education -- Social aspects
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Poets, American
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Women educators
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781429471596 |
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142947159X |
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0791470970 |
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9780791470978 |
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0791470989 |
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9780791470985 |
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9780791480083 |
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0791480089 |
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