Sense and Sensitivity / / by Hanna Ezer.

• Superior document: Imagination and Praxis: Criticality and Creativity in Education and Educational Research
• VerfasserIn: Ezer, Hanna.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Language: English
• Series: Imagination and Praxis: Criticality and Creativity in Education and Educational Research
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (121 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The study described in this book is a qualitative phenomenological research study whose objective was to reveal the writer’s identity of teacher educators in academia and to discover how they express this identity in their teaching practice. Twenty-three academic scholars were interviewed for the st...

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Autobiographical Notes and Research Design
• Autobiographical Notes: Myself as Writer
• Research and Book Structure
• Theoretical Background
• What Is Writing and Why Do People Write?
• Status of Writing Worldwide and in Israel
• Models for Teaching Writing
• Types of Writing
• Writing and Identity
• Six Narratives Highlight the Identity of the Writer
• The Fascinating Process of Writing—A’s Narrative
• Writing Is a Precious Matter—B’s Narrative
• Writing Offers Serenity—C’s Narrative
• Writing Offers Serenity—C’s Narrative
• Writing as a Calling Card—E’s Narrative
• Writing as the Essence of Life—F’s Narrative
• Lenses Reflect the Identity of the Writer
• First Lens: Perceptions of Writing
• Writing as Artistic Creation
• Writing as Experience and as a Social-Communicative Medium
• Writing as a Physical and Spiritual Process
• Second Lens: The Role of Writing in the Writer’s Life
• Types of Writing
• The Development of Writing
• Passages and Changes—From Poetic Writing to Academic Writing
• Passages and Changes—From Poetic Writing to Academic Writing
• Third Lens: The Self as Writer—The Literate Self
• Perception of the Self as Writer
• The Bilingual Self as Writer
• The Process of Writing
• The Role of the Computer in the Writing Process
• The Literate Self—the Literate Individual
• The Self as Writer and the Literate Self—Summary
• Fourth Lens: Writing and Teaching
• Perceptions of Writing in Teaching and Learning
• The Identity of the Writer and the Teaching of Writing
• Writing Workspace and Writers’ Behavior
• The Writer’s Workspace
• The Behavior of the Writer While Writing
• The Behavior of the Writer While Writing
• Conclusions
• Implications for Writing Environments
• References
• About the Author
• Index.