Research in the Teaching of English Feb 2024

Relational Poetic Practice: Affordances and Possibilities of High School Teachers’ Online Poetry Community during COVID-19

Sarah J. Donovan Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City ; Jennifer Guyor-Jowett ; Denise Krebs ; Maureen Daley

Abstract

Using interpretive phenomenological analysis of oral history interviews, this study explored poetic experiences of nine US secondary English language arts teachers who participated in a month of online poetry writing during COVID-19. The manuscript explores how poetic relationality created space for these secondary English language arts teachers, mostly in rural school districts, to reflect on their realities during COVID-19. These teachers came to understand themselves not just as teachers but also as poets, an understanding that helped sustain them as they taught in digital contexts, during social distancing and school closures.

Journal
Research in the Teaching of English
Published
2024-02-01
DOI
10.58680/rte2024583299
Open Access
Closed
Topics
multimodality multilingual writers

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