Creating The Joyful Writer
Creating the Joyful Writer: Introducing the Holistic Approach in the Classroom is aimed at educators who want to go beyond traditional approaches but don't know how. Schiller emphasizes physical, social, emotional, spiritual, and environmental elements (that is, the whole person) rather than just the intellect. She details background, historical development, and philosophical explanations for holistic education, including a timeline of key people and ideas. Teaching activities provide a...
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Creating the Joyful Writer is a teacher resource based on holistic education for those educators who want to go beyond _traditional approaches_ but do not know how. In this book, emphasis is placed on the whole person (intellectual, physical, social, emotional, spiritual, and environmental) rather than the intellectual way of knowing. Written in an easy-to-read format, the book provides a holistic approach that fosters creativity and joy in the production of written expression.
Preface Jack P. Miller viiAcknowledgments ixIntroduction xiBackground and Influential People 1Creativity: A Holistic Route to Writing 14Contemplating Great Things in Soul and Place 23Walking in the Spirit of the Medicine Wheel: Learning to See What We Normally Do Not See 31Write Your Own Ending 39The Connected Self 42Visioning in Silent Community 48Screenplay Writing 51Info-Commercial 55Cave Art: Is It Literature? Is It Writing? 59Finding Your Community's Literature 63Creating a Life's Legacy 68Music and Dance to Inspire the Pen 74The Writer's Scrapbook 79Voice and Identity: The Sound of Respect 83Writing the Outdoors: 3 Days in Nature 89Selected Holistic Schools 103Rhetorical Aims and Organizational Strategies 109Annotated Bibliography 113About the Author 121
