Overview
** By the authors of the acclaimed Introduction to Rubrics** Major growth of interest in keeping journals or diaries for personal reflection and growth; and as a teaching tool** Will appeal to college faculty, administrators and teachers One of the most powerful ways to learn, reflect and make sense of our lives is through journal keeping. This book presents the potential uses and benefits of journals for personal and professional development—particularly for those in academic life; and demonstrates journals’ potential to foster college students’ learning, fluency and voice, and creative thinking.In professional life, a journal helps to organize, prioritize and address the many expectations of a faculty member’s or administrator’s roles. Journals are effective for developing time management skills, building problem-solving skills, fostering insight, and decreasing stress.Both writing and rereading journal entries allow the journal keeper to document thinking; to track changes and review observations; and to examine assumptions and so gain fresh perspectives and insights over past events. The authors present the background to help readers make an informed decision about the value of journals and to determine whether journals will fit appropriately with their teaching objectives or help manage their personal and professional lives. They offer insights and advice on selecting the format or formats and techniques most appropriate for the reader’s purposes.
Full Product Details
Author: Dannelle D. Stevens ,
Joanne E. Cooper
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint: Stylus Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 0.680kg
ISBN: 9781579222154
ISBN 10: 1579222153
Pages: 286
Publication Date: 03 June 2009
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
An impressively complete and well organized exploration of the uses of journal writing. It provides rich backing for John Dewey's key insight, namely that it's not experience that makes us learn, it's reflection on experience. --Peter Elbow, author of Writing with Power, and Everyone Can Write and Professor Emeritus (09/01/2008) This book describes a practical strategy for promoting learning and thinking artfully grounded in adult development and learning theory. Stevens and Cooper remind readers that reflection is a key element of learning and offer multiple ways to reflect meaningfully through journaling. They use their own and others' journal entries to reveal how journaling helps reflect on one's experience, develop one's internal voice through making meaning of experience, transform one's assumptions and knowledge, and organize and communicate one's perspective. They offer multiple possibilities for readers to use journaling for personal growth, fostering their own and others' learning, and managing professional life. --Marcia B. Baxter Magolda, Professor Emerita, Miami University of Ohio and author of Authoring Your Life (01/01/2009) Over the course of human history, when we study individuals who have made a significant difference in our lives, we discover that the key to their own self-discovery, growth, and resilience is their journal keeping. We call them 'geniuses, ' whether Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, Wordsworth (Dorothy as well as William), John Muir, Einstein, Gertrude Stein, Thoreau, Ansel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, or Barack Obama. Presidents, scientists, artists, all came to their purpose and power through the reflective practice of writing a journal. Read this book for real-life lessons on the power of journals for your own professional and creative life. You will be inspired to write and I promise you, whatever you write, in whatever format, will transform your moment, make your day, and change - who knows, perhaps save - your life. --Barbara Mossberg, President Emerita Goddard College, Senior Scholar James McGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, and Director and Professor Integrated Studies, California State University Monterey Bay (02/01/2009) Dannelle Stevens and Joanne Cooper have written a comprehensive yet accessible book on the pleasures and challenges of using journals to support reflective learning... This is the book I wish that I'd had years ago when I first started experimenting with journals in my classes. I commend it highly, and believe it has the potential to bring journaling into more widespread and effective practice in reflective learning. --Mary E. Hess, Luther Seminary Teaching Theology and Religion (10/01/2010) Journal Keeping is a superb tool for educators who want to be reflective practitioners, and help their students become reflective learners. But it is not a typical 'how-to' text, as the epigraph to Chapter 1 suggests: 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' Elaborating on Socrates, Stevens and Cooper explore the rationale, process and impact of journal keeping on educators and students alike, helping us overcome familiar obstacles; e.g., 'How can you possibly evaluate a student journal?' As one who likes to amend Socrates with the words, 'If you choose to live an unexamined life, please do not take a job that involves other people, ' I hope this fine book will be widely read and used. --Parker J. Palmer (author of The Courage to Teach, Let Your Life Speak and A Hidden Wholeness ) (01/01/2009)
This book describes a practical strategy for promoting learning and thinking artfully grounded in adult development and learning theory. Stevens and Cooper remind readers that reflection is a key element of learning and offer multiple ways to reflect meaningfully through journaling. They use their own and others' journal entries to reveal how journaling helps reflect on one's experience, develop one's internal voice through making meaning of experience, transform one's assumptions and knowledge, and organize and communicate one's perspective. They offer multiple possibilities for readers to use journaling for personal growth, fostering their own and others' learning, and managing professional life. --Marcia B. Baxter Magolda, Professor Emerita, Miami University of Ohio and author of Authoring Your Life (01/01/2009) Over the course of human history, when we study individuals who have made a significant difference in our lives, we discover that the key to their own self-discovery, growth, and resilience is their journal keeping. We call them 'geniuses, ' whether Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, Wordsworth (Dorothy as well as William), John Muir, Einstein, Gertrude Stein, Thoreau, Ansel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, or Barack Obama. Presidents, scientists, artists, all came to their purpose and power through the reflective practice of writing a journal. Read this book for real-life lessons on the power of journals for your own professional and creative life. You will be inspired to write and I promise you, whatever you write, in whatever format, will transform your moment, make your day, and change - who knows, perhaps save - your life. --Barbara Mossberg, President Emerita Goddard College, Senior Scholar James McGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, and Director and Professor Integrated Studies, California State University Monterey Bay (02/01/2009) An impressively complete and well organized exploration of the uses of journal writing. It provides rich backing for John Dewey's key insight, namely that it's not experience that makes us learn, it's reflection on experience. --Peter Elbow, author of Writing with Power, and Everyone Can Write and Professor Emeritus (09/01/2008) Dannelle Stevens and Joanne Cooper have written a comprehensive yet accessible book on the pleasures and challenges of using journals to support reflective learning... This is the book I wish that I'd had years ago when I first started experimenting with journals in my classes. I commend it highly, and believe it has the potential to bring journaling into more widespread and effective practice in reflective learning. --Mary E. Hess, Luther Seminary Teaching Theology and Religion (10/01/2010) Journal Keeping is a superb tool for educators who want to be reflective practitioners, and help their students become reflective learners. But it is not a typical 'how-to' text, as the epigraph to Chapter 1 suggests: 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' Elaborating on Socrates, Stevens and Cooper explore the rationale, process and impact of journal keeping on educators and students alike, helping us overcome familiar obstacles; e.g., 'How can you possibly evaluate a student journal?' As one who likes to amend Socrates with the words, 'If you choose to live an unexamined life, please do not take a job that involves other people, ' I hope this fine book will be widely read and used. --Parker J. Palmer (author of The Courage to Teach, Let Your Life Speak and A Hidden Wholeness ) (01/01/2009)
Author Information
Dannelle D. Stevens is a tenured professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Portland State University in Oregon where she has been since 1994. Her roots, however, are in the public school classroom where she taught middle school and high school social studies, language arts, and special education for 14 years across four school districts and three states. She received her master's from the University of Utah in 1983, and a doctorate in educational psychology from Michigan State in 1991. Before coming to PSU she taught at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Whether the topic is rubrics, journal writing, action research or academic writing, her work centers on how adults reflect on what they do and, then, act on those reflections. One of Dr. Stevens' underlying assumptions is that cognitive, social and emotional development does not end with the teenage years but continues through the lifetime. Besides over 75 conference presentations, she has written three books, all designed to impact development of her fellow faculty and their students. Her first book, co-edited with Joanne Cooper, Tenure in the Sacred Grove: Issues and Strategies for Women and Minorities, (SUNY Press, 2002), was written to help faculty women and minorities negotiate the path to tenure. Introduction to Rubrics, now in its second edition, and co-authored with Antonia J. Levi, and Journal Keeping, co-authored with Joanne Cooper, are both published by Stylus Publishing. In addition to teaching classes, she has taken on leadership positions in the department and campus-wide. In the Curriculum and Instruction Department, Dr. Stevens leads teacher licensure cohorts and coordinates the MA/MS program for experienced teachers. For the university at large, she works within the Center for Academic Excellence as faculty-in-residence for assessment. She is chair of the Institutional Assessment Council. Joanne E. Cooper is a Professor in the Department of Educational Administra
