Poetic Inquiry as Visiting: Stories of Men

Authors

  • Jodi Marie Latremouille University of Calgary

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37119/ojs2014.v20i2.173

Keywords:

narrative inquiry, storytelling, place-baced pedagogy

Abstract

This article is a reflection on how stories can come to inhabit a place in a pedagogical way, as Keith Basso notes, “wisdom sits in places” (1996). In this story, I write about my experiences teaching a college preparation English and math class in rural British Columbia. In the short story entitled Stories of Men, I describe the act of witnessing the stories of suffering and hope of men who grew up attending local residential schools, alongside the stories of their sons’ coming of age in the contemporary school system.
    

Keywords: poetic inquiry; narrative inquiry; storytelling; place-based pedagogy


Author Biography

  • Jodi Marie Latremouille, University of Calgary
    Jodi Latremouille is a former high school Social Studies and English teacher.  She is a graduate student in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary.

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Published

2014-06-20

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Vol. 20 No. 2 (2014): Autumn 2014 Special Issue: [Practices of Poetic Inquiry] in education

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