Jones, Janice K. (2014) Weaving words: personal and professional transformation through writing as research. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. ISBN 978-1-4438-5452-8
Abstract
Weaving Words: Personal and Professional Transformation through Writing as Research brings together the writings of researchers in education and pre-service teachers to engage with emerging debates around what forms of writing are valued and supported within 21st century teaching and research. It focuses upon the importance of writing for personal expression, for finding a voice, for storytelling and for personal and professional transformation.
The book’s chapters elaborate one or more of the following organising questions:
• What are researchers’ and educators’ beliefs and understandings
of the purposes and forms of writing as a creative process, for self-knowledge and for research?
• How are pre-service teachers’ and researchers’ personal and professional understandings and beliefs about writing constructed,shared and challenged?
• What connections, gaps and contradictions occur at the intersections between the written words of researchers in this text and those of pre-service teachers?
• What are the implications of those intersections, and the gaps and silences between the voices of the authors, for practices of education more broadly, and for research in education in particular?
In addressing these questions, the book interweaves contributions by researchers in education with chapters where poems, plays and short stories created by undergraduate pre-service teachers are presented with the writers' reflections on their experience. Further, accounts by pre-service teachers of the challenges they experienced in transferring their learning to working with younger students as writers, and their reflections on those experiences raise challenging questions about the impact of professional habitus: effecting change is increasingly difficult within systemic processes of curriculum and pedagogy.
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