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Sailing in a Concrete Boat

A Teacher’s Journey

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Carl Leggo
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Part of the book series: Social Fictions Series (SFS, volume 3)

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Table of contents (46 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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    1. Wor(l)d

      • Carl Leggo
      Pages 1-1

    2. Lies

      • Carl Leggo
      Pages 2-4

  3. A

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Topsy-Turvy

      • Carl Leggo
      Pages 6-6

    3. Voluptuous

      • Carl Leggo
      Pages 7-8

    4. Resurrection Plant

      • Carl Leggo
      Pages 9-9

  4. B

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 10-10
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    2. Running in the World Upside Down

      • Carl Leggo
      Pages 11-16

  5. C

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Chant

      • Carl Leggo
      Pages 18-18

    3. Glossolalia

      • Carl Leggo
      Pages 19-20

  6. D

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. I Wear Many Masks

      • Carl Leggo
      Pages 22-26

  7. E

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Four Philosophers

      • Carl Leggo
      Pages 28-29

    3. Science Textbooks

      • Carl Leggo
      Pages 30-30

  8. F

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Flowers for the Teacher

      • Carl Leggo
      Pages 32-33

  9. G

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 34-34
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About this book

Sailing in a Concrete Boat: A Teacher’s Journey is a novel-length narrative composed in a sequence of short fictions and poetry linked by recurring characters, themes, events, and setting. The narrative explores the experiences and emotions of a school teacher named Caleb Robinson. He teaches in a conservative church-administered school in a rural Newfoundland town called Morrow’s Cove. Caleb struggles to understand what it means to be a teacher, husband, lover, friend, father, Christian, and human being. Sailing in a Concrete Boat raises many questions about pedagogy as questioning, freedom of expression, conservative religious beliefs, breaking silences, and curriculum as cultural reproduction instead of cultural transformation. Above all, Sailing in a Concrete Boat seeks to narrate the complex lived experiences of a school teacher as he questions love, family, community, vocation, well-being, romance, spirituality, authority, silence, truth, and identity. In order to make sense of his tangled living experiences, Caleb is always remembering and researching his past in order to write and rewrite his future. Sailing in a Concrete Boat will be a valuable resource in both undergraduate and graduate courses in teacher education, curriculum and pedagogy, life writing, poetic inquiry, arts-based research, and narrative inquiry. Social Fictions Series Editorial Advisory Board Carl Bagley, University of Durham, UK Anna Banks, University of Idaho, USA Carolyn Ellis, University of South Florida, USA Rita Irwin, University of British Columbia, Canada J. Gary Knowles, University of Toronto, Canada Laurel Richardson, The Ohio State University (Emeritus), USA Carl Leggo is a poet and professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in writing and narrative inquiry. His books include: Growing Up Perpendicular on the Side of a Hill; View from My Mother’s House;Come-By-Chance; Teaching to Wonder: Responding to Poetry in the Secondary Classroom; Lifewriting as Literary Metissage and an Ethos for Our Times (co-authored with Erika Hasebe-Ludt and Cynthia Chambers); Being with A/r/tography (co-edited with Stephanie Springgay, Rita L. Irwin, and Peter Gouzouasis); Creative Expression, Creative Education (co-edited with Robert Kelly); Poetic Inquiry: Vibrant Voices in the Social Sciences (co-edited with Monica Prendergast and Pauline Sameshima); and Speaking of Teaching (co-authored with Avraham Cohen, Marion Porath, Anthony Clarke, Heesoon Bai, and Karen Meyer).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sailing in a Concrete Boat

  • Book Subtitle: A Teacher’s Journey

  • Editors: Carl Leggo

  • Series Title: Social Fictions Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-955-8

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6091-955-8Published: 12 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 225

  • Topics: Education, general

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