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"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
2010-10-01)
"This work presents background on the value of journals so that
readers can determine whether journals will fit appropriately
with their teaching objectives or help them manage their personal
and professional lives... A collection of 19 case studies of
journals by faculty, graduate students, and administrators is
illustrated with b&w photos, illustrations, and pages from
real-life handwritten journals." (Book News Inc. 2009-10-01)
"As mentioned, this book has lots in it about journaling. If you
are new to the idea and want an excellent introduction, the
material is here... I could see having this book on the shelf of
an EDC or in a library, as it is bound to benefit people
interested in learning more about journals and/or addressing
specific issues pertinent to the broad area at a pedagogical
level... In summary, I comment the book on the whole as one that
belongs in a resource center to support teaching and learning."
(EDC Resource Review 2011-07-01)
"Journal Keeping makes a clear and compellig argument for what
the authors call an "underused and sometimes misunderstood" (xv)
educational tool... The book makes a theoretically sound,
logistically solid, and ultimately persuasive argument for the
keeping of journals." (The Review of Higher Education 2011-04-01)
"Dannelle Stevens and Joanne Cooper bring years of personal and
professional experience with journal writing to inform the
content of their book. This fact creates a level of credibility
to their writing, and their approach to the material makes
reading the text feel like a converstation with trusted friends.
The intent of their volume is to explain the use of journaling in
teaching and how to keep a journal to help organize professional
lives. Therefore, this book should appeal to a variety of
academic readers including faculty members, students, staff and
administrators. In addition, both the novice and seasoned journal
writer should find several takeaways... Among the several
strengths of the book is the potential for immediate application
of journal writing strategies to support active learning...
Journal Keeping should be on everyone's short list. The writing
is approachable, the book well organized and the material easy to
implement in practice. Rarely have I found a book that I have
been so enthusiastic about and that I highly recomment to
others." (Community College Review 2011-01-01)
"Making a written record of our lives, experiences, and thoughts
often helps us to understand them better, provide an emotional
, memorialize accomplishments, benefi our ity, and
estbalish the only kind of immortality that most of us can hope
for. That's why Journal Keeping is such an invaluable and highly
recommended instructional manual for aspiring diarists and
journalists... It is a highly recommended addition to personal,
professional, academic, and community library reference
collections and supplemental reading lists." (Midwest Book Review
2009-07-01)
"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”
2009-01-01)
“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
2009-01-01)
“An impressively complete and well organized exploration of the
uses of journal writing. It provides rich backing for John
Dewey’s key in, 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, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2008-09-01)
“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 2009-02-01)
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Book Description
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"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."―Teaching Theology and Religion
“"A superb tool for educators who want to be reflective
practitioners, and help their students become reflective
learners. I hope this fine book will be widely read and used."―
Parker J. Palmer, author of The Courage to Teach
“Stevens and Cooper 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, Distinguished Professor of Educational
Leadership at the Miami University of Ohio
“An impressively complete and well organized exploration of the
uses of journal writing. It provides rich backing for John
Dewey’s key in, namely that it’s not experience that makes
us learn, it’s reflection on experience."―Peter Elbow, author of
Writing with Power
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. The authors present the background so readers can
determine whether journals will fit appropriately with their
teaching objectives; and offer ins and advice on selecting
the format or formats and techniques most appropriate for the
reader’s purposes.
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