Reflecting on Teaching Through Poetic Connoisseurship

• In Event: Assessment, Perception, and Education: An Eisnerian Lens

Abstract

This presentation argues that reflecting on teaching through the artistic medium of poetry can provide significant insights into what it is like to live through classroom moments. Using connoisseurship as a mode of inquiry, two poems and two respective interpretations are presented. These analyses are used as justifications for how and why poetry and connoisseurship can sharpen practitioners’ and scholars’ aesthetic perception of classroom teaching.

Authors

• Aaron Samuel Zimmerman, Texas Tech University

• Linnie Greenlees, Texas Tech University

• Elizabeth Isidro, Western Michigan University

• Stacey Sneed, Texas Tech University