Gian S. Pagnucci, Ph.D.
Department of English
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
 
           


Gian Pagnucci

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Indiana University of Pennsylvania

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English 846: Advanced Seminar in Literacy - Narrative Research

Course Web Site

Dr. Gian Pagnucci

"Home is where your story begins"


Instructor Information

Course Information

  • Semester: Summer I, 2007
  • Banner Course Number (CRN): 30308
  • Section: 001
  • Computer Classroom: Leonard Hall - Room 202
  • Meeting Times: 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Monday - Thursday

Course Syllabus

Course Description

“It’s against the rules,” Sanders said.  “Against human nature.  This elaborate story, you can’t say, Hey, by the way, I don’t know the ending.  I mean, you got certain obligations.” (from Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried)

As a teacher and scholar, I’m convinced that we not only should value stories as a tool for learning, but that we are obligated to do so. Narratives help us to understand the world around us in ways no other form can. So I believe we need to seek out and then recount the vital stories of people’s lives.

That’s what we’ll work on in this course: reading, writing, and telling stories. We’ll study narrative inquiry and story-based teaching. We’ll look at why stories are so important to our thinking and also why they seem to be overlooked in our schooling. I hope that by the end of the course, many of you will be looking ahead with thoughts about narrative dissertations you might write.

Course Units

Journals Related to Narrative

 

Preferred Journals

Other Useful Journals

Course Resources

Bibliographies

Graduate Student Work

Thanks
 

I want to thank IUP C&T alum Dr. Carrie Fitzpatrick who helped create the original design for this page along with locating many of the resources linked here.

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