Bentley, Helen and Shoffner, Melanie (2025) “You write what you want and what you need”: incorporating reflective practice in the ELA classroom through caring pedagogy. Reflective Practice, 26. pp. 173-184. ISSN 1462-3943
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Caring pedagogy is critical in today’s classrooms, and supporting students’ emotional needs as well as educational needs is an integral part of the teaching profession. This qualitative case study examines how one 9th grade ELA teacher uses reflective practices to enact care for her students. Creating a specially designed 50-minute freewrite class, the participant centers students by welcoming their voices into the classroom. Notes from observations and semi-structured interviews are used to show how the participant’s reflections about her students’ journals and discussions drive instruction. Findings show that care-based instruction -giving students space to write about any topic, removing the potential barriers of correct spelling and grammar, and engaging in caring, collaborative discussion- encourages student investment in writing.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Education |
| SWORD Depositor: | RISE Symplectic |
| Depositing User: | RISE Symplectic |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Oct 2026 10:54 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Oct 2026 10:54 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/4991 |
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