From The Personal to The Public: Conceptions of Creative Writing in Higher Education  

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Light, Gregory

Jenis: Article from Journal
Dalam koleksi: Higher Education vol. 43 (2002), page 257-276.
Topik: academic literacy; conceptions of learning; conceptions of writing; creative writ¬ing. personal experience; phenomenography. public expression; readership; student learning
Fulltext: Higher Education vol 23 p257-276.pdf (1.88MB)

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Much qualitative research on student learning in higher education has focused on a key distinction between surface reproduction of 'knowledge' and a deeper understanding of it, This distinction has also been found in research on student practice and understanding of essay and discursive writing. This paper reports on results from a study of 40 interviews conducted with students taking creative writing courses ai three different higher education institutions in the United Kingdom. Interviews were conducted with students of various levels of exper¬ience and expertise in creative writing and included students taking a single undergraduate module in creative writing and students enrolled in a highly selective Masters program in Creative Writing. The interviews focused on the students' conceptions and practice of crea¬tive writing while taking then respective courses. The analysis o\' the interview transcripts revealed an underlying subjecti\ist epistemology in the students' general assumptions and perception of the nature of Creative Writing vis-a-vis other forms of academic writing. Linked to this epistemology, the analysis disclosed a typology of four differing conceptions of student understanding and practice of creative writing within two overall transcribing and composing :ories of conception. These categories closely resemble student's conceptions of writing practices in other disciplines.

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