Writer Identity and the Teaching and Learning of Writing

Teresa Cremin, Terry Locke, Teresa Cremin, Terry Locke

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781138945715
• eBook ISBN: 9781317363910
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Writer Identity and the Teaching and Learning of Writing is a groundbreaking book which addresses what it really means to identify as a writer in educational contexts and the implications for writing pedagogy. It conceptualises writers' identities, and draws upon empirical studies to explore their construction, enactment and performance. Focusing largely on teachers' identities and practices as writers and the writer identities of primary and secondary students, it also encompasses the perspectives of professional writers and highlights promising new directions for research. With four interlinked sections, this book offers:

• Nuanced understandings of how writer identities are shaped and formed;
• Insights into how classroom practice changes when teachers position themselves as writers alongside their students;
• New understandings of what this positioning means for students' identities as writers and writing pedagogy; and
• Illuminating case studies mapping young people's writing trajectories.

With an international team of contributors, the book offers a global perspective on this vital topic, and makes a new and strongly theorised contribution to the field. Viewing writer identity as fluid and multifaceted, this book is important reading for practising teachers, student teachers, educational researchers and practitioners currently undertaking postgraduate studies.

Contributors include: Teresa Cremin, Terry Locke, Sally Baker, Josephine Brady, Diane Collier, Nikolaj Elf, Ian Eyres, Theresa Lillis, Marilyn McKinney, Denise Morgan, Debra Myhill, Mary Ryan, Kristin Stang, Chris Street, Anne Whitney and Rebecca Woodard.

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INDEX

academic writing: professional academic writers 23, 24, 33; by teachers 89

accountability 4, 20, 68, 84, 214

achievement 57

action research 146

Adawu, A. 7

adequation 117

advocacy 91, 92, 93–95

agency xix, xxvii, 7, 135, 202; dynamic conception of identity 14; home writing 159; identity formation 136; learning to write 9; novice teachers 91, 95–96; reflexivity 154–155; self-positioning 138; students 13; teacher-writers 68, 77; third space 154; writer development 197

Alsup, J. 8

Althusser, L. 7, 137

Anderson, K. 75–76

Andrews, R. 133

Angelou, Maya 19

anxiety xxiv, 13, 100–101, 104, 107; choice of topic 44; grammar 133, 145–146

Apple, M. 83

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Writer Identity and the Teaching and Learning of Writing
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Section A Writing, Writers and Identity
• Section B Writing identity and the development of teachers
• Section C Teachers as writers: Shifting Practices and Positions in the Classroom
• Section D Students’ Writing Identities
• Afterword
• Index