| dc.contributor.author | Dean, Ann Victoria. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-21T12:37:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 1992 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1992 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | AAINN80241 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55352 | |
| dc.description | This thesis, "Teachers Writing About Themselves" is about clear writing, the art of autobiography, and the misuse of autobiography in educational research. It is an account of my schooling as pupil and teacher, and is presented as educational research that deals with personal testimony and the unregarded in life, the only evidences relevant to fresh inquiry. It is written in plain English. | en_US |
| dc.description | In it, I raise the following questions: What is clear language? What is the purpose of clear language? Why do most educational researchers not write in clear language? What is the relationship between autobiography and knowledge? | en_US |
| dc.description | I argue against the use of jargon by educators and researchers and I attack the use of pseudo-scientific language by educators, whom, I believe, in their zeal to legitimate and to validate their research, knowingly or unknowingly, participate in the objectification and control of their research subjects. | en_US |
| dc.description | This thesis is about memory, love and discovery. I explore the relationship between passion, learning and self-knowledge. Poetry is put forward as the clearest form of writing and the most difficult to comprehend and I argue that those who are not poets end up writing about writing because they can't write, and end up writing about people writing about themselves because they don't understand themselves. | en_US |
| dc.description | The purpose of clear language is to reveal mystery. No thesis can ever be a poem. No poet would ever waste time writing a thesis. | en_US |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1992. | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Dalhousie University | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | en_US |
| dc.subject | Education, General. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Language, General. | en_US |
| dc.title | Teachers writing about themselves. | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.contributor.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
