Healing the Educator through the Written Word

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dc.contributor.advisorHarrison, Marlen
dc.contributor.advisorLee, Christopher
dc.contributor.authorLaVergne, Emily
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-23T04:31:17Z
dc.date.available2024-01-23T04:31:17Z
dc.date.issued2024-01-01
dc.description.abstract“Healing the Educator Through the Written Word” centralizes on the lived experience of a female educator and how scriptotherapy, particularly Expressive Writing, offers benefits as relief from the stress of emotional labor. While Expressive Writing has been studied extensively as a writing tool for students, to date there is no intentional scholarship on Expressive Writing employed as a tool for educators as a daily practice. My work is to create a space for teachers to use writing to their advantage regularly: to reflect, to express, to remember, and to inspire. Helene Cixous’s theoretical concept of writing and Virginia Woolf's Angel in the House are utilized to center the experience of female educators and maximize therapeutic effects while maintaining a space for their marginalized voice. Through a blending of academic research and my own lived experience as an educator and writer, I both position Expressive Writing as a viable tool for the female educator’s daily use as effective relief of stressful symptoms and as a reflective practice for professional development and personal growth.
dc.description.degreeMaster Arts
dc.description.programEnglish
dc.description.schoolCollege of Online and Continuing Education
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10474/3811
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherSouthern New Hampshire University
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dc.rightsAuthor retains all ownership rights. Further reproduction in violation of copyright is prohibited.
dc.rightsHolderLaVergne, Emily
dc.subject.lcshCreative Writing
dc.subject.lcshGender Studies
dc.subject.lcshTherapy
dc.subject.otherAutoethnography
dc.subject.otherEducation
dc.subject.otherFeminist Theory
dc.subject.otherLiterature
dc.subject.otherScriptotherapy
dc.subject.otherTeacher
dc.titleHealing the Educator through the Written Word
dc.typeThesis

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