ERIC Number: EJ1243320
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Mar
Pages: 26
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Writing beyond "The Four Corners": Adolescent Girls Writing by, in, from, and for Bodies in School
Woodard, Rebecca; Vaughan, Andrea; Coppola, Rick
Journal of Literacy Research, v52 n1 p6-31 Mar 2020
There is growing interest in foregrounding bodies in literacy research and pedagogy. Drawing across multiple conceptualizations of bodies as tools, mediums, and social texts, this qualitative case study examines the multifaceted nature of embodiment in two adolescent girls' school writing. Situated in a research-practice partnership that included researchers, the teacher, adolescent youth, and their parents, this analysis explores the ways writing acted with/on bodies throughout a poetry-writing unit in an urban middle school English language arts classroom. Data collected over 11 weeks included student and teacher interviews, observations and field notes, and artifacts. Through inductive coding processes, coupled with member-check interviews with participants and their parents, four themes were identified: (a) embodied knowing as inspiration for writing, (b) bodies as a mode of multimodal representation, (c) writing as a way to counternarrate against/with other bodies, and (d) bodies responding to writing.
Descriptors: Females, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Language Arts, Poetry, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Human Body, Identification (Psychology), Self Concept, Writing (Composition), Urban Schools, Minority Group Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Elementary Education; Grade 7
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Language: English
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