Ars Poetica Pedagogicas: A Poetic Inquiry into the Teaching of Poetry and Teacher Identity

• In Event: AERA Graduate Student Research-in-Progress Session 5
  In Roundtable Session: Research on Teacher Identity (Table 5)

Abstract

What is the experience of teaching poetry as a poet? How does a poet-teacher approach pedagogy? This paper features the writings and reflections of high school poetry teachers and takes up poetic inquiry as a research method. Study participants' teaching settings varied--urban, suburban, public, private, secondary, and undergraduate school contexts, all in the United States. Teacher-participants wrote their own "ars poetica pedagogicas"-- meditations on poetry teaching using the form and techniques of poetry as their vehicle for expression, inspired by the longstanding tradition of ars poetica.

Author

• Meg Davis Roberts, SUNY New Paltz