Date of Award
12-2009
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.F.A.
Degree Program
Film, Theatre & Communication Arts - Low Residency Creative Writing concentration;
Department
Film, Theatre, and Communication Arts
Major Professor
Lavender, William
Second Advisor
Moore, Dinty W.
Third Advisor
Veslany, Kathleen
Abstract
In this series of essays about professional burnout, a veteran teacher seeks a way to continue her work and enthusiasm in it, for the sake of both her and her students. To that end, she explores her relationships with her father and mother, and how the practices of teaching and learning she brought from home have affected her present classroom experiences. A complicating factor is the presence of chronic illness and its demands both primary and secondary: her father's Alzheimer's, her mother's bi-polar disorder, and the demands of eldercare for her mother. She also explores her own habitual practice of being a student, in a reflective inquiry into the mind and situation of students from inside her own experiences. Interleaved vignettes of student interaction illustrate the kinds of difficulty that the speaker has with her teaching. They appear chronologically to suggest a developmental movement.
Recommended Citation
Marwitz, Mary, "Moving Away from Home: A Map of Classroom Burnout" (2009). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 1090.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1090
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