Teaching With Spirit: Freire, Dialogue, And Spirituality In The Composition Classroom

<p>This ethnographic study examines the role of spirituality in the composition teaching process and in Paolo Freire's dialogic education specifically. Work to acquire some aspects of spiritual "Discourse," as the term is defined by James Gee, is needed in order to make this spiritual foundation visible and practicable. Through a series of ethnographic narratives of a classroom, this study demonstrates the necessity of spiritual work on the part of the teacher to develop the mind frame and skill set necessary for dialogic pedagogy. A series of workshop activities based on Freire's spiritual prerequisites for dialogic education are proposed.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year dc:date.available

2010

Author dc:creator

• Vidovic, Justin

Contributors dc:contributor

• Gwen Gorzelsky

• composition
• Freire
• Gee
• pedagogy
• spirituality
• writing
• Other Education

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/121

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.wayne.edu:oa_dissertations-1120