S5 E3: Writing About Reading

[Image designed by WIP Intern, Anya Ricketson] Description In this episode, host Anya Ricketson explores writing in education and cumulative essay writing with the help of guest Ida Klausen, a third year Elementary Education major with a minor in teaching English to speakers of other languages. Ida and Anya chat about how essay writing can…

Writing and Storytelling

Empowering Voice When You Have Something Worth Saying by Justice Britton Walter Fisher’s Narrative Paradigm Theory provides a conceptual framework and/or a shared perceptual filter which centers the process of meaning-making and knowledge production within a vision of the world as a set of stories from which various communities construct and constantly re-construct their lives…

Training the Next Generation of Scientist-Poets

by Clara Nibbelink “That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.” —Aldo Leopold,  A Sand County Almanac, 1949 When I first read this meditation by Aldo Leopold, I was struck by this 20th century hunter, woodsman and ecologist’s…