TY - JOUR
T1 - Risky Business: Teaching “Fails” in the Auto|Biography Classroom: An Introduction
AU - McNeill, Laurie
AU - Douglas, Janine
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - In a series of short essays, leading auto/biography scholars reflect on their experiences teaching life narratives, considering occasions when things did not go according to plan. They remind us that “teaching lives” comes with particular perils, and share strategies for negotiating those challenges. Exploring issues including teaching across genres, analyzing writing about trauma, decolonizing pedagogies, and challenging assumptions (our own, our students', and our colleagues'), these reflections illuminate what makes the teaching of life narratives different from teaching other kinds of subjects or texts.
AB - In a series of short essays, leading auto/biography scholars reflect on their experiences teaching life narratives, considering occasions when things did not go according to plan. They remind us that “teaching lives” comes with particular perils, and share strategies for negotiating those challenges. Exploring issues including teaching across genres, analyzing writing about trauma, decolonizing pedagogies, and challenging assumptions (our own, our students', and our colleagues'), these reflections illuminate what makes the teaching of life narratives different from teaching other kinds of subjects or texts.
UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/raut20/current
U2 - 10.1080/08989575.2017.1241510
DO - 10.1080/08989575.2017.1241510
M3 - Article
VL - 32
SP - 97
EP - 100
JO - a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
JF - a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
SN - 0898-9575
IS - 1
ER -