Using Writing Studio Pedagogy to Help Students Reclaim Their Disabilities and Sexualities in a High School Writers' Workshop

Download or read book Using Writing Studio Pedagogy to Help Students Reclaim Their Disabilities and Sexualities in a High School Writers' Workshop written by Matthew A. Kim and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another distinguishing feature of this dissertation is how I contextualize my research project in stories from my life as a learning-disabled, LGBT student and teacher. I weave into the chapters reports from my pediatrician, neurologist, neuropsychiatrist, teachers, and residence counselor, which point to how critical my own successes and failures were to brining this dissertation to fruition. My mother saved eighteen years of documentation on me, and when I asked her why she went to all the trouble to move literally pounds of reports with her from house to house, she replied that she didn't know. She just imagined them to be useful one day.