Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing Threshold Concepts to Guide the Literary Curriculum

• Main Author: Adsit, Janelle
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2017; Bloomsbury Academic
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Creative Writing; Creative writing (Higher education); Creative Writing Studies and Pedagogy (Lit Studies ASC3); Education; English language; English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching; Language Arts; Literary Studies; Society and Social Sciences; Teaching Methods & Materials; Teaching of a specific subject
• ISBN: 1350023892; 9781350023895; 9781350023864; 1350023868; 1350107220; 9781350107229; 1350023884; 9781350023888
• DOI: 10.5040/9781350023895

The creative writing workshop has existed since the early part of the 20th century, but does it adequately serve the students who come to it today? While the workshop is often thought of as a form of student-centered pedagogy, it turns out that workshop conversations serve to marginalize a range of aesthetic orientations and the cultural histories to which they belong. Given the shifting demographics of higher education, it is time to re-evaluate the creative writing curriculum and move literary writing pedagogy toward a more inclusive, equitable model. Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing makes the argument that creative writing stands upon problematic assumptions about what counts as valid artistic production, and these implicit beliefs result in exclusionary pedagogical practices. To counter this tendency of creative writing, this book proposes a revised curriculum that rests upon 12 threshold concepts that can serve to transform the teaching of literary writing craft. The book also has a companion website www.criticalcreativewriting.org offering supplemental materials such as lesson plans and course materials.