1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453138303321

Autore

Jackson Michael <1940->

Titolo

The other shore [[electronic resource] ] : essays on writers and writing / / Michael Jackson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2013

ISBN

0-520-95482-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Disciplina

813/.509

Soggetti

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

English literature - History and criticism

English language - Writing

Authorship

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1.The Other Shore -- 2. The Red Road -- 3. Kindred Spirits -- 4. Writing under the Influence -- 5. A Typewriter Collecting Dust -- 6. Writing in Limbo -- 7. The Magical Power of Words -- 8. Flights of Fancy -- 9. Writing Fellowship -- 10. There Go I -- 11. Love Letters -- 12. Writing for Bare Life -- 13. Writing So As Not to Die -- 14. Chinese Boxes -- 15. The Writing on the Wall -- 16. Writing out of the Blue -- 17. A Storyteller's Story -- 18. Writing in the Dark -- 19. Writing in the Zone -- 20. Writing, Naturally -- 21. Writing Workshop -- 22. The Books in My Life -- 23. Writing Utopia -- 24. Writing in Search of Lost Time -- 25. Writing about Writers -- 26. Writing in Ruins -- 27. Writing as a Way of Life -- Notes -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, ethnographer and poet Michael Jackson addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and autobiographical sources, he explores writing as a technics akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditation, that enables us to reach beyond the limits of everyday life and forge virtual relationships and imagined communities. Although Maurice Blanchot wrote of the



impossibility of writing, the passion and paradox of literature lies in its attempt to achieve the impossible--a leap of faith that calls to mind the mystic's dark night of the soul, unrequited love, nostalgic or utopian longing, and the ethnographer's attempt to know the world from the standpoint of others, to put himself or herself in their place. Every writer, whether of ethnography, poetry, or fiction, imagines that his or her own experiences echo the experiences of others, and that despite the need for isolation and silence his or her work consummates a relationship with them.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910139959303321

Titolo

Able, gifted and talented underachievers [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Diane Montgomery

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

ISBN

1-282-46092-7

0-470-74125-2

9786612460920

0-470-74124-4

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (372 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MontgomeryDiane

Disciplina

371.2/8

371.95

Soggetti

Underachievers - Great Britain

School failure - Great Britain

Gifted children - Education - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Rev. ed. of: Able underachievers.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Why do the gifted and talented underachieve? : How can masked and hidden talents be revealed? / Diane Montgomery -- Literacy, flexible thinking and underachievement / Joan Freeman -- What do we mean by an 'enabling curriculum' that raises achievement for all learners? : An examination of the TASC problem-solving framework : thinking actively



in a social context / Belle Wallace -- How can inclusive and inclusional understandings of gifts/talents be developed educationally? / Jack Whitehead and Marie Huxtable -- Effective teaching and learning to combat underachievement / Diane Montgomery -- Changing the teaching for the underachieving able child : the Ruyton School experience / Lee Wills and John Munro -- Understanding and overcoming underachievement in women and girls : a reprise / Carrie Winstanley -- Understanding and overcoming boys' underachievement / Barry Hymer -- Improving the quality of identification, provision and support for gifted and talented learners from under-represented communities through partnership working / Ian Warwick -- Gifted and talented children with special educational needs : underachievement in dual and multiple exceptionality / Diane Montgomery -- Using assistive technologies to address the written expression needs of the twice-exceptional student / William F. Morrison, Tara Jeffs, and Mary G. Rizza -- Case studies of three schools tackling underachievement / Diane Montgomery.

Sommario/riassunto

A practical guide to identifying gifted underachievers and enabling them to fulfil their potential, raising whole school standards.  Extensive new content includes the latest best practice in addressing able underachievement Explains the origins of underachievement, both overt and covert, especially in more able learners - provides a model that identifies a range of factors that conspire to lower achievement The UK Government's 2005 White Paper 'Higher Standards, Better Schools for All' set specific provision for Gifted and Talented (G&T) - there are similar programmes in all developed countri