The Power of Words: A Transformative Language Arts Reader, edited by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg and Janet Tallman
Publisher: TLA Press, 2007
Paperback: 492 pages
978-0976177357, $28
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Table of Contents:
The Emergence of Transformative Language Arts — Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
TRANSFORMATIVE LANGUAGE ARTS: A FIELD COMING INTO VIEW
The Gate to Heaven: Storytelling and Social Change — Caren Neile
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Emotional Disclosure, Writing, and Healing: Key Considerations — Francis Charet
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Poetry as Therapy — Perie Longo
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Memoir: An Academic, Democratic, Political and Liberating Framework — Shelley Vermilya
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Giving Voice to Art & Imagination: A Method of Transformational Inquiry –
Shaun McNiff
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Creating Community through Storytelling: An Act of Approach — Christopher Maier
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“TLA is a Great Bridge and More Than a Bridge”: An Interview with Allison Adele Hedge-Coke — Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
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Waking Our Senses: Language and the Ecology of Sensory Experience — David Abram
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WORLDS OF WORDS: REALMS OF TRANSFORMATIVE LANGUAGE ARTS
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Education of the Heart: Transformative Language, American Culture and the 60s — Janet Tallman
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Shamans of Song: Interviews with Deidre McCalla, Kelley Hunt & Greg Greenway — Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
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The Power of Writing to Heal: The Amherst Writers and Artists Method — Sharon Bray
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Creative and Expressive Writing as a Coaching Process (196)
Yvette Hyater-Adams
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Healing Stories, Healing Songs: Native American Traditions — Denise Low
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Do You Hear What I Heard?: Theatre as a Tool To Address Gossip, Silence and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Lesotho — Katt Lissard
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Finding the Life-Giving Words in the Life-Shattered World of Cancer — Nancy Morgan
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Caught in the Tension Between Child and Adult: Story in Dramatherapy for Troubled Teens — Mandy Carr
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The Three Candles of Hilda Stern Cohen’s Story: An Interview with Gail Rosen — Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
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RIGHT LIVELIHOOD THROUGH TRANSFORMATIVE LANGUAGE ARTS
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Asking Ethical Questions: A TLA Ethics as Conscious, Connected and Creative Action — James Sparrell
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Fine Lines: Questions Every Writer of Self Must Ask — Karen L. Campbell and Jeanne Hewell Chambers
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The Good Ambush: A Two-Voice Essay on Identity, Experience and Storymaking — Patricia Fontaine and Karen L. Campbell
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Restorative Justice through Storytelling — Lana Leonard
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“It Unfolds Before Whoever Walks Along It”: Seeking Right Livelihood in TLA – Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
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SNAPSHOTS: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF TRANSFORMATIVE LANGUAGE ARTS
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You Are Already a Writer — Pat Schnieder
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The Wonder of Paradox — Nancy G. Shapiro
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You Don’t Want to Be a Member — Carol Henderson
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Losing Control and Finding Voice — Rhonda Patzia
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First-Time Facilitating Writing with Teens: Hormones, Moods, and Food — Becci Goodall
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Battle Pay: Storytelling on a Dime — Jackson Gillman
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A National Treasure Hidden in Vermont: A Tribute to the Bread and Puppet Theater — Katherine Towler
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Bearing Witness to Death, Life and Everything in Between as a Personal Historian — Jeanne Hewell Chambers
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Making Journals, Making Lives — Nina Ricker
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God Behind Bars: Facilitating a Men’s Spiritual Writing Group at a State Hospital — Scott Youmans
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More Than Just Our Stories — Pam Roberts
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Pervasive Caretaking Irony — Debbie Harris
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A Legacy of Meaning: Writing with Elders — Anna Viadero
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The Surprise of Endings: TLA in a Cancer Writing Group — Linda Garrett
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EPILOGUE
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The Art of Self-Care in TLA — Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
