Jeffrey Berman

Death Education in the Writing Classroom

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Death Education in the Writing Classroom is the first book to demonstrate how love and loss can be taught in a college writing class-and the first to describe the week-by-week changes in students' cognitive and affective responses to death.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 352mm x 153mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780895034281
• ISBN-10: 089503428X
• Artikelnr.: 57046921

Autorenporträt

Berman, Jeffrey

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION: "Life Lessons"
PART 1: Diaries
CHAPTER 1-Week One
"Nervous Undergraduates Avoiding Eye Contact"
CHAPTER 2-Week Two
"Hearing It Made His Death More Real"
CHAPTER 3-Week Three
"She Helped Me Say What I Could Not Say Myself"
CHAPTER 4-Week Four
"There's Too Much Covering Up of Grief in America"
CHAPTER 5-Week Five
"We're Going to Die"
CHAPTER 6-Week Six
"Thinking Like a Writer"
CHAPTER 7-Week Seven
"I'm Sorry, I Understand"
CHAPTER 8-Week Eight
"Sometimes I Feel Like an Outsider in This Class"
CHAPTER 9-Week Nine
"I Felt As If I Were Reliving that Day"
CHAPTER 10-Week Ten
"There Is No Preparation for a Sight of Death"
CHAPTER 11-Week Eleven
"I Love You Too Much"
CHAPTER 12-Week Twelve
"We're Taking Risks in a Safe Place"
CHAPTER 13-Week Thirteen
"Write As If You Were Dying"
CHAPTER 14-Week Fourteen
"I Used to Cry in the Middle of the Night and Contemplate Suicide"
CHAPTER 15-Week Fifteen
"I Am Not Alone in This Battle"
PART 2: Breakthroughs
CHAPTER 16-Chipo
"I Have to Turn My Shattered Reality into a Livable Dream"
CHAPTER 17-Lia
"Instead of Minimizing My Struggles, I Wrote about Them"
CHAPTER 18-Shannon
"It's Hard for Me to Express Emotion"
CHAPTER 19-Faith
"If I Could Not Write, I Would Not Survive"
CHAPTER 20-Anonymous
"I Will Always Remember My Unborn Baby"
Conclusion: Reading Dying to Teach
Appendix: Syllabus for English 450: Writing about Love and Loss
References
Student Writers
Index