This ethnographic study is set in the milieu of a shelter for runaway youth as they participate in a ten-week series of poetry workshops, a Florida State University outreach effort. In the style of naturalistic and organic research, this study presents a narrative of and a response to the workshop experience. At times, the response is theoretical as the author presents a personal philosophy of writing and teaching of writing, interlaced with quotes and comments from other authors and theorists, ancient through contemporary. At other times, the response is creative and autobiographical, with surprising asides, sewing, in part, to explain the workshop leader's personality. / Subjects considered within the study include the student-centered, student-driven, interactive classroom; praise; authority; respect; community; identity; writing as a practice of wondering; the craft of writing; literacy as a creative and critical act; the possibility of a woman's rhetoric; and the intersections of rhetoric and composition and creative writing. In spite of objective passages and long scholarly discussions, the paper strives to maintain the reader's interest in an almost novel-like fashion. / Using qualitative methods of data collection, including field notes, participants' observations, tape-recordings of workshops, and photographs of workshops in progress, the researcher examines herself as ethnographer, creative writer, theoretician and workshop leader within the culture of the outreach workshops. What crystallizes, through the analysis of the lens worn by the ethnographer as a teacher and philosopher, is an ethnography turned in on itself. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-04, Section: A, page: 1351. / Major Professor: Joann Gardner. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77439 |
| Contributors | Teichmann, Sandra Gail., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 439 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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